Prior to Thursday night, my experience with opera consisted of my grandmother's ad naseum broadcasting of her Three Tenors cassette tape during our summer vacation visits, and seeing my sister perform part of Mozart's Cosí fan tutte during her sophomore year of college. So, while it was technically just the final dress rehearsal, you could say that my attendance at the Minnesota Opera's performance of Cosí fan tutte on September 22 was my first real opera experience.
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