Così fan tutte is regarded as one of the crowning achievements of the collaboration between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Under the baton of Sylvain Cambreling and directed by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, this production by the Teatro Real moves away from the traditional farce to create a cold, laboratory-like atmosphere in which to analyse the most stark aspects of human psychology.
In a mansion in Naples, the young women Fiordiligi and Dorabella enjoy apparent romantic stability with their respective fiancés, the officers Guglielmo and Ferrando. The idyllic reality of the two couples is thrown into turmoil when the cynical philosopher Don Alfonso challenges the men to take part in a devious wager to prove the supposed fickleness of women’s love. With the self-serving complicity of the manipulative maid Despina, the lovers find themselves caught up in a whirlwind of compromising situations.
Dramma giocoso in two acts
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
New production of the Teatro Real, in co-production with De Munt / La Monnaie of Brussels
Artistic team
Conductor | Sylvain Cambreling
Stage director | Michael Haneke
Set designer | Christoph Kanter
Costume designer | Moidele Bickel
Associate costume designer | Dorothée Uhrmacher
Lighting designer | Urs Schönebaum
Chorus director | Andrés Máspero
Assistants to the stage director | Wolfgang Schilly, Marcelo Buscaino, Catalina Molina
Répétiteurs | Arnaud Arbet, Riccardo Bini
Cast
Fiordiligi | Anett Fritsch
Dorabella | Paola Gardina
Guglielmo | Andreas Wolf
Ferrando | Juan Francisco Gatell
Despina | Kerstin Avemo
Don Alfonso | William Shimell
Harpsichord continuo | Eugène Michelangeli
Actors | Fran Antón, Laura Barba, Mauricio Bautista, Edgar Calot, Marta Calvó, Eneko Capapay, Rosa Carreras, Pablo Castellano, Paco Celdrán, Carole Devise, Ana Gallego-Coin, Jesús Gallo, César García, Josean Guerrero, Salomé Jiménez, Alberto Junco, Ismael de la Hoz, Cristina Maristany, María Menéndez, Elisa Morris, Gorka de la Nuez, Cristina Romero, Juan Salcedo, Iván Ugalde, Itziar Urretabizkaia, Fernando Ustárroz
Actors' casting | Luis San Narciso
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra
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