Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Conductor

Thomas Hengelbrock

Stage director

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Set designer

Costume designer

Elena Zaitseva

Lighting designer

Gleb Filshtinsky

Singer

Soprano

Agneta Eichenholz

Fiordiligi

Mezzo-soprano

Claudia Mahnke

Dorabella

Nicole Chevalier

Despina

Tenor

Rainer Trost

Ferrando

Baritone

Russell Braun

Guglielmo

Bass

Georg Nigl

Don Alfonso

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Chorus master

Detlef Bratschke

Théâtre du Châtelet

Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

Others

Balthasar Neumann Singers’ Academy

Orchestra

Balthasar Neumann Ensemble

Italian

Così fan tutte

Aix-en-Provence

France

Théâtre de l'Archevêché

Public

Private

English

French

Approved

Così fan tutte Mozart

Entretien avec  Dmitri Tcherniakov autour de sa mise en scène de Così fan tutte de Mozart, nouvelle production du Festival d'Aix à découvrir du 6 au 21 juillet 2023 au Théâtre de l'Archevêché.

"In the old days, we thought nothing could happen to us. Now we know that anything can happen to us. That is, in fact, the difference." Ingmar Bergman, Scenes from a Marriage (1974)

A fancy villa in the forest or perhaps a chalet in the mountains. Two couples of colleagues in their fifties are on holiday with two of their friends. They discuss love with the confidence of maturity: banal scenes from a marriage. But to turn their words into deeds, the two friends suggest that the couples try a special kind of experiment: a role-playing game that is supposed to lead them to a better understanding of themselves. The idyllic setting closes like a trap; what they discover will change them forever. Così fan tutte – the story of an ambiguous initiation alternating wisdom and cruelty – is an obvious next project for Dmitri Tcherniakov in the wake of his Carmen (2017). After The Marriage of Figaro (2021), Thomas Hengelbrock is back with the Balthasar Neumann Orchestra and a cast ideally suited to the project. The Festival d'Aix-en-Provence was born with Così fan tutte in 1948; what work could be more appropriate to celebrate its 75th anniversary?

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer