Cosi fan tutte, K. 588

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Librettist/Text Author: Ponte, Lorenzo da

Conductor: Mehta, Zubin

Orchestra: Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Orchestra

Chorus: Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Chorus

Chorus Master: Fratini, Lorenzo

Despina: Torre, Benedetta

Don Alfonso: Hampson, Thomas

Dorabella: Berzhanskaya, Vasilisa

Ferrando: Swensen, Matthew

Fiordiligi: Nafornita, Valentina

Guglielmo: Olivieri, Mattia

Set Designer: Crouch, Julian

Costume Designer: Pollard, Kevin

Lighting Designer: Brok, Alex

Stage Director: Bechtolf, Sven-Eric

Television Director: Mancini, Tiziano

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Date of Production: 28-03-2021

Venue: Maggio Musical Fiorentino, Firenze

Playing Time: 03:08:00

Catalogue Number: 2.110726-27

UPC: 747313572656

Libretto

Cosi fan tutte, K. 588 DE

Synopsis

Cosi fan tutte, K. 588

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The focus of Lorenzo Da Ponte's libretto for Cosi fan tutte is on female infidelity, two partner-swapping couples and a wager. Its enigmatic ambiguity and lightness of touch, its razor's edge balance between irony and empathy, detachment and involvement, and on-stage reality and illusion is structured with perfect Classical symmetry. More than any other opera it explores the depths and darker impulses of the experience of love. This production by director Sven-Eric Bechtolf was given in Florence with a staging that 'holds a balance between philosophy and humour' (Bachtrack.com)