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Così Fan Tutte

Così Fan Tutte in HD 2026

October 3, 2026

The Met’s 26-27 HD series started today with a reprise of Phelim McDermott’s production which was previously telecast by the company in 2018. You can read about the production set in 1950s Coney Island in my review of that telecast. Surprisingly, placing the story in an exaggerated version of the south Brooklyn amusement area worked, […]

Così Fan Tutte in HD 2018

March 31, 2018

When I heard that the Met was going to do a new production of Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte set in Coney Island during the 1950s I was relieved that they were not going to place the last of the Da Ponte operas in a Turkish brothel. Then I wondered why the Met needed a new production […]

Così Fan Tutte in HD

April 26, 2014

Mozart’s discourse on infidelity in the guise of an opera was presented as the penultimate broadcast of this season’s HD telecasts from the Met. Much was made by Renée Fleming in her introduction and interviews about how to regard this opera about the inconstancy of women in the 21st century. It seems to me that in today’s […]

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Neil Kurtzman

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Neil A Kurtzman MD is the Grover E Murray Professor Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock. He has combined careers in clinical medicine, education, basic research, and administration for more than 40 years.