Così fan tutte by Mozart, T 13 okt 2021, No (2021/2022), Režisēja Vincent Huguet, Diriģents Daniel Barenboim, Giuseppe Mentuccia, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany

Two couples who find each other in different constellations, driven by a bet about alleged and actual infidelity, are at the center of Mozart's »Così fan tutte« (»That's how everyone does it«) with the succinct subtitle »La scuola degli amanti« (»The School of Lovers"). The witty text by the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte encouraged the experienced opera composer Mozart to write music that was just as deep in thought. After »Le nozze di Figaro« and »Don Giovanni«, Mozart and Da Ponte worked together for the third time in 1789/90 with »Così fan tutte«. For the first time, the Viennese court poet designed a subject of his own invention. It offered Mozart numerous starting points for the original development of arias, duets, trios and other ensemble movements, up to the two great finales. In this finely structured chamber play, his already astonishing art of musical characterization is shown at a new level, with a multitude of very different moments of expression. Morality and lack of morality are addressed, not only in philosophical discourse, but primarily in the actions of lifelike characters who walk the fine line between truth and deception. With the production of Mozart's last comic opera in Italian, the young French director Vincent Huguet and Daniel Barenboim kick off a new Da Ponte cycle at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.