tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post5246965573287846146..comments2024-03-18T09:22:11.316-04:00Comments on OPERA OBSESSION: Così fan tutteLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02549302523503271428noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post-81394497048677234272012-07-18T11:03:26.491-04:002012-07-18T11:03:26.491-04:00Thanks for this post. I know I am coming to it qui...Thanks for this post. I know I am coming to it quite late! <br /><br />I have been pondering Cosi myself lately, and I really appreciate reading your thoughts, as well as the review of this performance.<br /><br />Cosi can be approached from so many angles. Sometimes I think the original pairs of lovers are the right ones; somtimes it seems like they just need to trade. Other times it seems like it doesn't matter. In several productions (probably the most interesting), there are no parings off at all at the end of the opera. <br /><br />I am working on some Cosi posts for my flegdling blog. Right now I am living with the Hermann's Salzburg 2006 production, and trying to gather my thoughts into a coherent commentary. <br />(The more I read other opera blogs--like yours--the less I think the world needs mine! But we can't let little things like redundancy get in our way, can we?) <br />I hope you don't mind if I include a link to your post in one of upcoming Cosi posts.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16322512607114908183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post-63844704364613752622011-10-27T13:29:11.096-04:002011-10-27T13:29:11.096-04:00I couldn't possibly keep up with all this rese...I couldn't possibly keep up with all this research. I always go to the opera wishing to be surprised and knowing full well how unlikely that is. I am interested here in what is going on with Isabel Leonard.<br />I like Cecilia's Fiordiligi. In fact it may be my favorite video of her.Dr.Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post-9849814978819750152010-11-24T14:45:54.774-05:002010-11-24T14:45:54.774-05:00Well, I'd eagerly read a post. Your point abo...Well, I'd eagerly read a post. Your point about the interchangeability of the pairs being key to Don Alfonso's (and the opera's) critique of the mechanisms of "falling in love" is cogent. I'm still not sure it quite sits easily for me, on the whole... getting to know the work better will probably help that. I'd love any DVD recommendations you might have.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02549302523503271428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post-1716662584513365202010-11-24T12:14:11.045-05:002010-11-24T12:14:11.045-05:00I've been thinking about this, and started wri...I've been thinking about this, and started writing a long comment which got out of hands... This warrants a whole post.<br /><br />It's a fantastically strange opera. Most people love the music but hate the dark and cynical libretto; Wagner, looking at both as inseparable, disliked the music too. <br /><br />The ending, which (as you noticed) has the pairs switched, is apposite. That's exactly what the opera is about: how easily and mechanically the love machines that we are fall in and out of love at certain oft-used triggers. It's like: push this button, then this button, and voila! And the male pair is even more pathetic. <br /><br />It's a story of interchangeability of humans. <br /><br />Plus I can't shake off the memory of that drab Peter Sellars setting for Cosi in a small-town American diner. (God, the clothes and the hair...) Saw it ages ago, but the unpleasantness lingers. I need to see a different Cosi DVD, like, now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post-59249581658552559942010-11-18T21:24:26.162-05:002010-11-18T21:24:26.162-05:00Hello, k! It's always nice to welcome a new r...Hello, k! It's always nice to welcome a new reader. And thank you for solving a puzzle which (in how many viewings of the link?) has always mystified me. Ach. I am chagrined, but relieved to have such a simple, if humiliating, answer to what appeared to be mysteriously sporadic functionality.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02549302523503271428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post-61341766102367897522010-11-18T21:15:34.890-05:002010-11-18T21:15:34.890-05:00Came here through your bit.ly link on twitter. Gla...Came here through your bit.ly link on twitter. Glad I did. Enjoy your writing quite a bit.<br /><br />On twitter, your profile link goes to: http://operaobsession.blogspot.com<br /><br />But your blog is actually at: http://operaobession.blogspot.com/<br /><br />("obession" instead of "obsession")<br /><br />fwiw, I am also obessed with opera.khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08135822287741734264noreply@blogger.com