COSI FAN TUTTE
From the Vienna’s Burgtheatre of 1790 to Sydney’s Palace Cinemas of 2011, this Mozart-scribed opera lamenting ‘cosi fan tutte’ – women are like that – has come a long way. With its fiancée-swapping, high-stakes gambling, hallucinations and seductions it was considered risqué during the Victorian era but is perfectly suited to a society soaked in Wife Swap reality TV shows and other amusing deceits. This Jonathan Miller-update of the original was staged at the Royal Opera House in London with opera greats Pavol Breslik, Stéphane Degout and more, then captured in high-definition with surround sound and beamed to cinema screens the world over. It’s not quite the Burgtheatre but for opera-lovers and wallet-watchers, it’s not a bad backup. (AB)
Jun 10-12, 15, Palace Cinemas, $15-27, palacecinemas.com.au
