Mozart's setting of Da Ponte's libretto is a masterpiece of quick wit and beauty, of timeless human foibles and discomforting ambiguity. The plotline only seems daft if the singers fail to communicate the searching relationships therein. The opera only feels long if the orchestra fails to drive it with enough grit and pathos.
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