A favorite Mozart performance from Leyla Gender-Bender
Così is an almost post-modern opera, in that it mocks the bourgeois construction of ‘love’ as a socially-sanctioned precursor to matrimony.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YTnT8VT9c
The hapless victims/perps (the two sisters and their suitors) are the definitive petit-bourgeois, whereas the people puncturing their love-bubble come from significantly higher or lower social classes, who have always had a more prosaic attitude towards matrimony (dynastic alliances or mere survival).
I like this clip mostly because of Teresa Stratas‘s physical comedy and her brilliant swapping of the pictures seems to highlight the fact that the men are, in fact, swappable; the sisters are in love with their *ideas* of the suitors. The individuality of the men matters little to them.
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People: Teresa Stratas
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Works: Le nozze di Figaro
