Cosi fan tutte at Carolina - November, 2006

In 1790, Mozart's third collaboration with Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte resulted in the comic opera Cosi fan tutte. This "school for lovers" was in the vein of innumerable eighteenth-century French and Italian comedies and novels. In principle, this should have been light-hearted fun - a slice of bourgeois life that no one took too seriously. But Mozart's music inevitably takes matters in a different direction. In Cosi fan tutte, he and da Ponte created a heady emotional mix that posed an age-old question: what happens when people fall in and out of love?

This November, Carolina undergraduate peformers under the direction of faculty members Terry Rhodes (Professor and Director, UNC Opera Theater) and Tonu Kalam (Professor, Music Director, and Conductor, UNC Symphony Orchestra) will present a semi-staged concert version of Cosi fan tutte in Memorial Hall.

The James M. Johnston Center for Unergraduate Excellence, in collaboration with the departments of Music and Dramatic Arts and the Ackland Art Museum, will celebrate this special production of Cosi fan tutte with a series of programs designed for undergraduates.

All events and exhibitions are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

Events:

Monday, Nov. 27
"Mesmerism, Love, and Sensibility in the Eighteenth-Century" Faculty Discussion

Tuesday, Nov. 28
Opening Night Performance of Cosi fan tutte

Wednesday, Nov. 29
Second Performance of Cosi fan tutte

Thursday, Nov. 30
Screening and Discussion of Casanova (2005)

November 1-30
Ackland Art Museum Special Exhibits