Così fan tutte
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About the opera
‘All women are like that,’ declares Don Alfonso, betting his friends Ferrando and Guglielmo that in just one day he can prove both their fiancées unfaithful. But when the young men accept, they enrol unwittingly in Alfonso’s ‘School for Lovers’. Will love prevail, or will cynicism take the prize?
The last of the three great collaborations between Mozart and librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, Così fan tutte is also the most sophisticated – a comedy that teeters right on the brink of tragedy. Scratch the sunny surface and this lyrical, Neapolitan farce reveals itself as a probing psychological portrait of human nature in all its complexity.
A much-loved Glyndebourne classic, Nicholas Hytner’s staging finds both the charm and the darkness in Mozart’s opera. Iván Fischer conducts an all-star cast including Luca Pisaroni and Miah Persson.
Captured live at Glyndebourne Festival 2006.
Creative team
Conductor
Iván Fischer
Director
Nicholas Hytner
Designer
Vicki Mortimer
Lighting Designer
Paule Constable
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Staff Director
Ashley Deany
Assistant Director
Samantha Potter
Cast includes
Ferrando
Topi Lehtipuu
Guglielmo
Luca Pisaroni
Don Alfonso
Nicolas Rivenq
Fiordiligi
Miah Persson
Dorabella
Anke Vondung
Despina
Ainhoa Garmendia