Opera Ithaca is celebrating its 10th anniversary season, which will be kicked off with its third annual Opera Ithaca Festival. The festival will feature a modern production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte and a screening of the company’s vaunted COVID-era film project, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.
Così fan tutte, will be performed with a modern twist as a set on the soundstage of a soap opera in the late 1980s. The internationally acclaimed cast includes soprano Andrea Baker as Fiordiligi, Sarah Nordin as Dorabella, Lisa Williamson as Despina, Leroy Davis as Guglielmo, and Tyler Putnam as Don Alfonso. Tenor Charles Calotta returns to Opera Ithaca following his star turn in the title role of Opera Ithaca’s 2023 production of Orpheus in the Underworld. Christopher Zemliauskas conducts, and Artistic Director Ben Robinson is the stage director. Performances will be on Friday, October 4, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, October 6 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY.