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Detroit production of Mozart opera turns its female characters into automatons
5 minute read Yesterday at 9:24 AM CDTDETROIT (AP) — Audiences at the Detroit Opera House expecting their performance of “Cosi fan tutte" to begin with the overture may be surprised to hear instead a product launch from a tech company CEO.
It’s Mozart meets Artificial Intelligence, in the latest mind-bending production by Yuval Sharon, the company’s adventurous artistic director.
The opera, first performed in 1790, was the last of three collaborations between Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, and despite its sublime music it has proved the least popular.
That’s due In part to the work’s uneasy mix of light-hearted farce and the cynical worldview it seems to endorse. Even the title, which translates as “Women are Like That,” suggests a misogyny that is openly expressed by one of its main characters, Don Alfonso.
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