Skylark Opera Theatre Announces Casting COSI FAN TUTTE In 2019

Set in the present day, the tables are turned when Mozart's characters are viewed through a contemporary lens and empowered as never before. #notyourgrandpascosi Sung in English

DATES: Friday, March 22, Saturday, March 23, Friday, March 29, Saturday, March 30 - 7:30 PM Sunday, March 24, Sunday, March 31 - 2:00 PM Ticket information $45 General $43 Senior $40 MPR members (phone order with member ID only), $40 Students Call: Ticketworks (612-343-3390) or order online: https://ticketworks.com/event-list/cosi-fan-tutte/ ASL date TBA, Post-show discussions TBA

Robert Neu has directed over ninety productions of operas, musicals and plays throughout the country. His recent productions include West Side Story for Central City Opera and Shreveport Opera; St. Matthew Passion for Central City Opera and Colorado Symphony; The Magic Flute for Pacific Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra; Don Gio- vanni for Opera Orlando, Opera Steamboat and Skylark Opera Theatre; La Boheme for Colorado Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Opera Orlando and Shreveport Opera; Flo- rencia en el Amazonas for Opera Steamboat; Bernstein's Mass, Peer Gynt (also adap- tation), La Traviata, Fidelio, Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Candide, and Carousel for Min- nesota Orchestra; Hansel and Gretel with Minnesota Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony and Colorado Symphony; Tosca and The Music Man for Colorado Symphony; Don Pasquale, Carmen, St. John Passion and The Barber of Seville for Lyric Opera of the North; Art and Death of a Salesman for Bloomington Civic Theater; The Marriage of Fi- garo for Bellevue Opera, Spokane Opera and Skylark Opera Theatre; Ayn Rand in Love for Chameleon Theater; The Laramie Project, Godspell and Blithe Spirit for Lyric

Arts Theater; On the Town, Wonderful Town, The Fantasticks, Candide, Putting It To- gether, The Tragedy of Carmen and Don Pasquale for Skylark Opera Theatre. Upcom- ing: Cosi fan tutte and The Most Happy Fella for Skylark Opera Theatre, L'Enfant et les Sortileges for Pacific Symphony, St. Matthew Passion for Shreveport Symphony, The Barber of Seville for Opera Orlando, La Traviata for Northern Lights Music Festival.

Twelve of Neu's productions have received "Best of the Season" citations from various media including Minneapolis Star Tribune, Cincinnati Post, St. Paul Pioneer Press and Minnesota Public Radio. His production of The Laramie Project received awards for Best Ensemble and Outstanding Theater Event from Broadway World. Neu teaches masterclasses in audition techniques for the University of Minnesota's opera department, and he is a Resident Director at Lyric Arts Theater, and Artistic Direc- tor of Skylark Opera Theatre. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and is the co- founder of Angels & Demons Entertainment, a production and arts consultancy organi- zation. He is represented by Uzan International Artists.