Abbas Kiarostami, that glum, most humane genius of cinema (Opera Chic's personal favorite of his: "10"), would like to direct another opera after his debut in "Cosi Fan Tutte", he told the "Financial Times":
“But [the opera] is a matter of portraying emotions. And how can we
relate to those emotions if we forget about ourselves? How can we even
pretend that we can ever forget about ourselves? Maybe we wish it,
because then time would disappear, and we would be frozen and never get
old. But even when we sleep and dream, our lives are going on. We never
truly forget about ourselves.”
He's thinking of "Don Giovanni"; Opera Chic would love to see him take a crack at La Clemenza di Tito instead.