Friday night at 8:00, Commonwealth Opera stages Così fan tutte, Mozart’s hilarious, spectacular, and often called sexist opera whose title eludes translation, at the Central Square YMCA. Tickets are $30.
Friday night in Jordan at 8:00, Emanuel Ax gives a Celebrity Series piano recital of Schumann and Chopin. Tickets going for $45-$66.
Boston Chamber Music begins its Winter Festival and Forum Saturday. Three concerts are scheduled this month (Jan. 9th, 16th, 23rd) at 8:00 in M.I.T.’s Kresge Auditorium, each preceded by a forum (Musical Time: Music as Architecture (Shape in Time); Music as Memory (Reminiscence); Time as Subject and Substance of Music) from 4:30-5:30 in Kresge. Tickets: $25 each, $60 for all three, and free for students.
Several new plays opening:
The much anticipated A.R.T/Elevator Repair Service production of Gatz, in two parts, making it probably the most expensive play you’ll see this year. But it’s probably worth it, people in New York City haven’t even seen it yet!
If seven hours of Gatz doesn’t put enough of a damper on your sense of the American Dream, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons opens at the Huntington, with their usual prices and discounts.
If these are too white for you, Underground Railway Theater and the Providence Black Repertory Company at the Central Square Theater open Harriet Jacobs, based on the classic slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Tickets only $15-$35.
If you missed Orfeo Group’s Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) this past Summer, you might want to check out another reduction at the Factory Theater. January 8, 9, 14, 15, 16 @ 8:00; January 10 @ 2:00; tickets: $15, $10 students.
Betty Field does the Charleston at a poolside party in The Great Gatsby (1949) (Bettmann)
