Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Così fan tutte
Overview
The young officers Ferrando and Guilelmo* do not want to let their fatherly friend Don Alfonso get away with it - after all, he doubts the fidelity of their fiancée! But instead of the demanded duel, they accept his proposal of a wager and thus become handmaidens in the work of destroying their love relationships.
Musical direction
Gernot Sahler
Stage direction
Alexander von Pfeil
Stage & Costumes
Anna Brandstätter
Dramaturgy
Malte Krasting
Music
Symphony Orchestra of the Mozarteum University
About production
- Libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte
- Dramma giocoso in two acts
- Music by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart KV 588
- First performed on 26 January 1790 at the Kaiserl. Royal National-Hoftheater in Vienna
The young officers Ferrando and Guilelmo* do not want to let their fatherly friend Don Alfonso get away with it - after all, he doubts the fidelity of their fiancée! But instead of the demanded duel, they accept his proposal of a wager and thus become accomplices in the work of destroying their love relationships. They disguise themselves in oriental garb and test the fidelity of Fiordiligi and Dorabella by attempting - guided by Don Alfonso - to seduce the two girls unrecognised as strangers. The confusion of love sends seducer and seduced alike reeling into a whirlpool of desire and emotional distress. Mozart's third and last collaboration with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte once again provides ambivalent, unsparing dynamite: the storm and stress of human passions at play with enlightened reason. In the end, the pupils of Alfonso's "School of Love" stand dazed, the unpredictable prevails.
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