Organization

Festspiele Zürich

Singer

Soprano

Malin Hartelius

Fiordiligi

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Bonitatibus

Dorabella

Martina Janková

Despina

Tenor

Javier Camarena

Ferrando

Baritone

Ruben Drole

Guglielmo

Bass

Oliver Widmer

Don Alfonso

Conductor

Franz Welser-Möst

Stage director

Sven-Eric Bechtolf

Set designer

Rolf Glittenberg

Costume designer

Marianne Glittenberg

Lighting designer

Jürgen Hoffmann

Chorus master

Ernst Raffelsberger

Opernhaus Zürich

Others

Chor der Oper Zürich

Orchestra

Philharmonia Zürich

Italian

Così fan tutte

Zurich

Switzerland

Opernhaus

Jealous men and unreliable women: Mozart’s “Opera buffa” Così fan tutte is a masterpiece of its genre. This operatic gem which is part comedy, part tragedy is a wry study in love, manipulation and trust. After having cooperated twice before (Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni) Così fan tutte was the third and last collaboration of Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is a clear-sightedly view of the confusion of human relations and opens up an abyss that seems to go far beyond the framework of a “Dramma giocoso”. In the tension between love and passion, security and selfnegation, faithfulness and betrayal, the couples get lost in emotional chaos.
Mozart illustrates these diverse emotions with his sublime music which is in turn poignant and stoic, heartfelt and romantic. A fine cast enriches Mozart’s stirring music. Under Franz Welser-Möst’s fabulous conducting this production of the Zurich Opera House is setting musical standards. In conjunction with the director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, he has developed into one of the leading teams in contemporary music theater. A great score, a famous production and wonderful singers: this Così fan tutte live recorded at the famous Zurich Opera House is a ‘must see’
for opera lovers

Public

German

Approved

Watch full performance here: Così fan tutte (2009)

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"Jealous men and unreliable women: Mozart’s “Opera buffa” Così fan tutte is a masterpiece of its genre. This operatic gem which is part comedy, part tragedy is a wry study in love, manipulation and trust. After having cooperated twice before (Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni) Così fan tutte was the third and last collaboration of Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is a clear-sightedly view of the confusion of human relations and opens up an abyss that seems to go far beyond the framework of a “Dramma giocoso”. In the tension between love and passion, security and selfnegation, faithfulness and betrayal, the couples get lost in emotional chaos.
Mozart illustrates these diverse emotions with his sublime music which is in turn poignant and stoic, heartfelt and romantic. A fine cast enriches Mozart’s stirring music. Under Franz Welser-Möst’s fabulous conducting this production of the Zurich Opera House is setting musical standards. In conjunction with the director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, he has developed into one of the leading teams in contemporary music theater. A great score, a famous production and wonderful singers: this Così fan tutte live recorded at the famous Zurich Opera House is a ‘must see’
for opera lovers.

English

Così fan tutte by Mozart, From (2009/2009), Directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf,, Conductor Franz Welser-Möst, Opernhaus, Zurich, Switzerland

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