Organization

Singer

Soprano

Maud Millar

Fiordiligi

Mezzo-soprano

Sarah Denbee

Dorabella

Tenor

Zachary Devin

Ferrando

Baritone

Henry Manning

Guglielmo

Marion Wylie

Despina

Bass

Daniel Roddick

Don Alfonso

Faustine De Monès

Katie Slater

Nick Pritchard

Jake Gill

Alice Privett

Barnaby Beer

Set designer

Katharine Heath

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Natalie Jones

Conductor

Oliver John Ruthven

Repetiteur

Emily Senturia

Stage director

Daisy Evans

Orchestra

Musica Poetica London

Così fan tutte

London

United Kingdom

Highgate

Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Così fan tutte Mozart

Public

English

Approved

Very little is known about the.circumstances Surrounding the
CO SSOning na conoOSton Srdnute e tnira ang nina
he Emnror oseph commissioned the work followiná the successful
revival of Figaro in August 1789 It was written in the autumn of that
Year anehISned RYnristmas, During DecembDer, Mozart wrote tO nis
ena cnaer ucnperg, wnom ne was promising to repamoney
ne owed as soon as he hag been paid his fee for the new opera:," am
my Dlace for 3 Sall nera reheArsa invtinonvO navn
y piace O d Silail optidenedsdi-Tm vILg onY you dnd iayun.
Da Ponte originally wrote the libretto for Salieri, who abandoned it after
comp
invention. He tried it 'out on pther (unidentined) composers, but only
Mozart accepted, perhaps on the strength of their earlier joint successeś.
Da Pontes plot is based on a number of sources, combining two main
nemes, poth ot them widely used by earlier writers. Ihe nirst, going
Dack to the j5th century, concerns a man who Is So conndent that his
WIreis unseduceable that he lays a bet, allowing an admirer to test her
denty,OTten witn disasurOus resuiES. Ine, prime source ror tnis story
also takes up the theme in Cymbeline, where the distasteful idea of
betting on á woman's chastity is made, acceptable by shifting the
Context to mediaeval chivalryhe second theme is the use of disguise
OYa suspcious nuspand, poSIng as an amorouS, Stranger to see ir his
Wite can tDetrustedhis ideahrst appears in Ovig's story of ephalus
test her virtue by this device reappearsin many.auisesthroudhot
mediaeyal literature. Ariosto, one of da Ponte's fávõurite poets, uses
In Orlando TurioSoDa Ponte, however,, was the fhrst to combine
tne twonemes, Uhe bet and the disguise, in an opera libretto. But
e paid his respects to Ariosto.by, borrowing nameş for his characters
FIordiligr "Doralice' and FIordesSpina are all to be found
Oranao
rurioso.
OS Was nrst pertormed in enna on 26th January 0,and was given
Emperor's death. Thereafter it suffered a strange fate, part neglect,
part bowdlerisation to disguise the unsavoury immoralíitý of the text
t was hrst pertormed in London in 18 but not thereafter for 100
years. Only in the second halif of the 20th century did Cosi become
core repertoire in British opera houses.

Così fan tutte by Mozart, From (2012/2012), Directed by Daisy Evans,, Conductor Oliver John Ruthven, Highgate, London, United Kingdom

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