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The Met: Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of opera performances transmitted live from the stage of the Met into movie theaters worldwide. Experience extraordinary opera performances live from the Metropolitan Opera in your local cinema.

The Met Live in HD: Così fan Tutte (Mozart) – Encore

Overflowing with gorgeous melody, Mozart’s witty romantic comedy follows two sailors who switch places to test their fiancées’ faithfulness, with hilarious results.

Hailed as “colorful, inventive” by The New York Times, Phelim McDermott’s (Satyagraha, Akhnaten, The Hours, The Enchanted Island) production updates the setting to an amusement park inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, featuring sword swallowers, fire breathers, contortionists, and more.

CAST: Federica Lombardi, Samantha Hankey, Ana María Martínez, Duke Kim, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Gerald Finley

CONDUCTOR: Nimrod David Pfeffer

DIRECTOR: Phelim McDermott

ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 4 hours, with one intermission