Organization

Opernhaus Zürich

Conductor

Riccardo Minasi

Stage director

Kirill Serebrennikov

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Evgeny Kulagin

Stage Design Assistant

Nikolay Simonov

Costume Assistant

Tatiana Dolmatovskaya

Lighting designer

Franck Evin

Video designer

Ilya Shagalov

Chorus master

Janko Kastelic

Dramaturge

Beate Breidenbach

Singer

Soprano

Vannina Santoni

Fiordiligi

Mezzo-soprano

Samantha Hankey

Dorabella

Baritone

Xiaomeng Zhang

Guglielmo

Tenor

Mauro Peter

Ferrando

Valentina Farcas

Despina

Bass

Edwin Crossley-Mercer

Don Alfonso

Francesco Guglielmino

Sempronio

Titio

Solo-Cello

Claudius Herrmann

Others

Chor der Oper Zürich

Orchestra

Philharmonia Zürich

Statistenverein am Opernhaus Zürich

Andrea del Bianco

Piano

Cello

Italian

Così fan tutte

Zurich

Switzerland

Opernhaus

Così fan tutte Mozart

Public

German

English

Approved

Così fan tutteDramma giocoso in zwei Akten von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Libretto von Lorenzo da PonteMusikalische Leitung_Cornelius Meister Inszeni...

Cosi fan tutte
Almost all of Mozart's operas are about the abysses of love - but none so exclusively as in Così fantutte. At first everything seems simple and unshakable here: Ferrando and Guglielmo love their fiancés Dorabella and Fiordiligi. The men are willing to bet that the women are loyal to them – even with Don Alfonso, who is certain that he can prove them wrong with an experiment. But what was planned as a harmless game develops into a cruel open-heart experiment, which in the end pulls the rug out from under everyone involved: because the characters have to recognize that what they think they are feeling and what they actually are feel is in painful contradiction to each other. Mozart looks deeply into the hearts of his characters, who are tossed about by their emotions; Like no other, he knows how to use his music to tell of the bewildering complexity of their emotional states. At the same time, however, Mozart is not a moralist - he does not condemn his characters, and so it becomes a music theater that presents the unfathomable in a wonderfully light and thoroughly comedic way. However, abysses do not only open up among women -so fan tutti .
The extremely dense and radically contemporary production by Kirill Serebrennikov was created in 2018 under very special conditions: the Russian director was under house arrest in Moscow at the time and could not be present at the rehearsals. This did not harm the artistic expressiveness - the public and the press were enthusiastic about his directing work. This revival is a veritable new production: the French soprano Vannina Santoni takes on the role of Fiordiligi for the first time, and Samantha Hankey, the young but already internationally sought-after mezzo-soprano, can be heard for the first time as Dorabella

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble