Company

Singer

Soprano

Arianna Vendittelli

Fiordiligi

Mezzo-soprano

Wallis Giunta

Dorabella

Marie Lys

Despina

Tenor

Pavel Petrov

Ferrando

Baritone

Robert Gleadow

Guglielmo

Bass

Rubén Amoretti

Don Alfonso

Lausanne

Switzerland

Opéra de Lausanne

Diego Fasolis

Conductor

Stage director

Jean Liermier

Set designer

Rudy Sabounghi

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Jean-Philippe Roy

Cheur de l'Opéra de Lausanne

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

Così fan tutte - Thus Do They All

Jean-Philippe Guilois

Public

Opera

Thus Do They All

Approved

When he set to work on his first work with the ‘imperial poet’ Lorenzo da Ponte in the autumn of 1785, it had been three years since Mozart had touched opera. Their first partnership on Le nozze di Figaro was an immediate triumph, so much so that the Emperor of Austria himself, who loved it, demanded more. In 1789, he commissioned a new opera buffa, while personally imposing the subject: the on-stage transposition of a (true-life) story that everyone in Vienna was talking about, that of two officers who, while stationed in Trieste, had… swapped wives! This was to be Così fan tutte. Both Mozart and Da Ponte outdid themselves. A Venetian familiar with the most tortuous paths of love and, more generally, with the whole range of emotional subtleties inherent to human nature, the poet delivers a pared-down work in which equivocation and offbeat humour are given free rein, in the purest buffa tradition. Perfectly in tune with these different levels of language and understanding, Mozart let himself be carried along by the plot, delivering a virtuoso score in terms of the refined combinations it offers: duets, ensembles, and even the use of the orchestra itself to spice up the whole thing with innuendo. And all this in barely a month!

English

Thus Do They All by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, From Opéra de Lausanne (2024/2024), Directed by Jean Liermier,, Conductor Diego Fasolis

Credits (Cast & Crew)

Opéra de Lausanne

Diego Fasolis

Jean Liermier

Cast

Arianna Vendittelli

Wallis Giunta

Marie Lys

Pavel Petrov

Robert Gleadow

Rubén Amoretti

Crew

Rudy Sabounghi

Rudy Sabounghi

Jean-Philippe Roy

Ensemble

Cheur de l'Opéra de Lausanne

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

Co-Producer

Opéra de Lausanne

Program, About & Synopsis

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues 4