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The Metropolitan Opera reimagines Mozart at Coney Island. It involves snakes

NPR | By Dave Mistich,
Ayesha Rascoe
Published September 6, 2026 at 6:02 AM MDT

The Metropolitan Opera has reimagined a version of Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" set at Coney Island in the 1950s. Live snakes were auditioned and a large boa constrictor named Princess has been cast.

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