As music buffs can tell you, Mozart loved pranks, potty humor and his pets, which included a fox terrier and a starling. He’d probably have been tickled to see a snake wriggling around in one of his operas.
That opera is “Così fan tutte,” which recently returned to the Metropolitan Opera. For this comedy about lovers in disguise, production designer Phelim McDermott updated the action to 1950s Coney Island, complete with sword swallowers, fire breathers, contortionists — and an 8-foot-long boa constrictor named Cupcake.
She’s the second snake to grace the Met’s stage, which over the years has seen its share of donkeys, horses, sheep and dogs, though it’s stopped short of recruiting a real elephant for “Aida.” When this “Così” debuted at the
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