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Da Ponte Lecture 3
Reason and Desire: The Soprano in Mozart's Da Ponte Operas
Meet the smartest women in eighteenth-century opera. Susanna outwits everyone in the room, the Countess holds her dignity together with sheer will, Zerlina talks her way out of disaster, and Despina runs the whole con. Mozart and Da Ponte threw out the rulebook for female characters and gave each of these women a voice, and a mind, entirely her own. This recital celebrates the sopranos who proved that wit, resilience, and desire could be just as operatic as tragedy.
with soprano Kristina Ammattil