Così fan tutte is one of Mozart’s less popular works and is revered more amongst the cognoscenti than general audiences. Despite its beautiful music, the story has always seemed thin to me, the plot hard to sustain convincingly for its length.  Acclaimed director and designer Jonathan Miller has reset this classic tale of love and deception in modern times and, very specifically, in Washington D.C. The comic inventiveness, pointed cultural references, and riffs on current events he’s brought to the work create something so fresh that the whole evening becomes a romp, beguiling enough to win over the youngest and most reluctant of audiences for opera. [Read more...]