Guilt and pleasure
Ambivalent is how I feel about Cosí fan tutte.
2 pieces since 2016 — in 2 roles, at 1 company, most often at LoftOpera.
Ambivalent is how I feel about Cosí fan tutte.
With tight, jazzy orchestrations, a queer-coded Mephistopheles, and sassy modern recitative, Heartbeat Opera’s fast 100-minute Faust delivers Gounod in miniature, minus some of the schmaltz.
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