Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Jenny Carlstedt

Dorabella

Soprano

Aga Mikolaj

Fiordiligi

Tenor

Andrew Kennedy

Ferrando

Baritone

Rodion Pogossov

Guglielmo

Claire Ormshaw

Despina

Bass

Henry Waddington

Don Alfonso

Conductor

Gérard Korsten

Rory Macdonald

Stage director

Nicholas Hytner

Samantha Potter

Costume designer

Vicki Mortimer

Set designer

Iván Fischer

Luca Pisaroni

Nicolas Rivenq

Miah Persson

Anke Vondung

Ainhoa Garmendia

Glyndebourne

Italian

Così fan tutte

Watch Mozart’s Così fan tutte for free at 5.00pm UK time on Sunday 15 May. Available until Sunday 29 May at 5.00pm.

All’s fair in love and war. But what happens when love becomes the battlefield?

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Così fan tutte

‘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

Ferrando: Topi Lehtipuu
Guglielmo: Luca Pisaroni
Don Alfonso: Nicolas Rivenq
Fiordiligi: Miah Persson
Dorabella: Anke Vondung
Despina: Ainhoa Garmendia

London

United Kingdom

Sadler's Wells

Stoke-on-Trent

The Regent Theatre

Norwich

Norwich Theatre Royal

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes Theatre

Plymouth

Theatre Royal

Woking

New Victoria Theatre

Opera House

Ebert Room

Lewes

Nicholas Hytner's production of Così fan Tutte explores the "effect of the strength of desires," thanks to its aesthetic which enhances the seduction at work in the opera.

As the opera opens, Ferrando and Guglielmo want to prove each other that their fiancées, the two sisters Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful and would never betray their love. Don Alfonso, the cynical philosopher, assures them that all women act alike and cannot be trusted. The two of them take the challenge and accept Alfonso's dangerous conditions. They pretend to go to war and come back to the young girls as strangers to seduce them and test their loyalty.

While the two sisters lament upon their lovers' absence, the maid Despina talks them into enjoying life with the other men available. The young girls gradually yield to their wooers' compliments but each one prefer their sister's lovers. Ferrando's fiancée Dorabella falls for Guglielmo, where as Fiordiligi remains faithful, which triggers a competition between the two male friends…

Così fan Tutte, or the School for Lovers is a drama giocoso commissioned by Emperor Joseph II. It is based on the original libretto by Da Ponte and marks the last piece of the composer's collaboration with the librettist after Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. It shows how human nature can be fickle and fragile. According to Iván Fisher, the music director of this production, the opera tells us that "we are all seducible, and it is something which is forgivable, which has to be forgiven."

Così fan tutte Mozart

Public

English

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading