A Night at the Opera.

11-28-10 SHORT HILLS: Thanksgiving has come and gone, and I go back to the gym tomorrow to begin to compensate and atone. We had eleven for dinner on Thursday—Alison’s family, Valerie’s family and Anna’s roommate from Chicago, Erin. Every one was generally agreeable, we ate and ate and ate, watched the Jets win, played pool, went to the movies, had extra desserts. The guests were all gone by mid-day Friday, but we all met again Saturday night for dinner at Café Fiorello and a night at the opera—the Met’s new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. The music is some of Mozart’s best, and the singing is mostly duets, quartets, sextets and a couple solo arias of note. The libretto by Da Ponte is a farce with a lot of laughs and a happy ending. Special ‘bravas’ for Miah Persson as Fiordiligi.