NEW YORK—Where can you see sword swallowers, contortionists, bearded ladies, and snake handlers? The surprising answer is on the stage of The Metropolitan Opera at the performances of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.”
Although the opera was originally set in 18th-century Naples, for the new production at the Met (a product in partnership with the English National Opera), director Phelim McDermott has moved the action to Coney Island in the 1950s. Add to that a first-rate cast (including Broadway veteran and Tony Award-winner Kelli O’Hara), and the opera is a musical and visual feast.
