Organization

Soprano (+2)

Anett Fritsch

Fiordiligi

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Paola Gardina

Dorabella

Tenor (+3)

Juan Francisco Gatell

Ferrando

Bass-baritone (+7)

Andreas Wolf

Guglielmo

Kerstin Avemo

Despina

Baritone (+2)

William Shimell

Don Alfonso

Conductor

Conductor (+3)

Sylvain Cambreling

Till Drömann

Stage director

Michael Haneke

Set designer

Christoph Kanter

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+2)

Urs Schönebaum

Chorusmaster

Andrés Máspero

Costume designer

Costume designer (+1)

Moidele Bickel

Chorus

Intermezzo

Orchestra

Madrid Symphony Orchestra

Teatro Real

La Monnaie/De Munt

Teatro Real de Madrid

After his exploration of the institution of marriage and the paths of desire, denominating Don Giovanni il dissoluto punito, Mozart shows us that the school of love is both a heavenly and bitter path at the same time. But we can find his liberal and humanist views on love in the letter to his wife, written at a time when she was waving an affair with his student, and in the texts of the lovers in his operas: we can only live if we are aware of the complexity of the relationship between desire and love, as described by Octavio Paz in La llama doble. An ideal topic for Michael Haneke, the author of The white ribbon, who returns to opera to premiere his production at the Teatro Real following the launch of his new film, Amour, at the Cannes Festival.

Italian

Così fan tutte -  (Così fan tutte, K.588)

Madrid

Spain

Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte who also wrote Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni.

Although it is commonly held that Così fan tutte was written and composed at the suggestion of the Emperor Joseph II, recent research does not support this idea. There is evidence that Mozart's contemporary Antonio Salieri tried to set the libretto but left it unfinished. In 1994, John Rice uncovered two terzetti by Salieri in the Austrian National Library.

The short title, Così fan tutte, literally means "So do they all", using the feminine plural (tutte) to indicate women. It is usually translated into English as "Women are like that". The words are sung by the three men in act 2, scene 3, just before the finale; this melodic phrase is also quoted in the overture to the opera. Da Ponte had used the line "Così fan tutte le belle" earlier in Le nozze di Figaro (in act 1, scene 7).

The opera, based on a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, is a romantic comedy about the complexity of relationships between men and women. With his sensual, spirited and passionate music, Mozart poses fundamental questions about love and brings to the libretto surprising psychological depth and an underlying seriousness not present in the original farce. Michael Haneke created a contemporary staging for the Teatro Real Madrid. The orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Real performed this masterpiece in 2013 under the baton of Sylvain Cambreling. The work features Anett Fritsch, Paola Gardina, Juan Francisco Gatell, Andreas Wolf, Kerstin Avemo, and William Shimell.

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