Così fan tutte: Salzburg Festival

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Enjoy Mozart's opera 'Così fan tutte' in a new production with conductor Christoph Eschenbach and directed by Sven‐Eric Bechtolf at this year's Salzburg Festival.

'Thus do all – women! For the literal translation of Così fan tutte is not “Thus do all people”, since “tutte” signifies the feminine plural. Don Alfonso’s misogynous dictum still seems almost provocatively malicious. Even though during the course of the action the men are exposed as no less fickle than the women, the title continues to work its subtle poison in us.

Da Ponte and Mozart collaborated on three operas: Le nozze di Figaro in 1786, Don Giovanni in 1787 and Così fan tutte in 1790. However, it is arguably not the homogeneity of the two artists’ creations but rather their contradictoriness that makes their collaborative undertakings so rich and inexhaustible.

Formerly a priest and banished for adultery, Da Ponte is an adventurer, and if anything not so dissimilar to his Don Alfonso. A man who continues to display an admirably tenacious attachment to the things of this world to the end of his days. Mozart’s genius seems to be made of different stuff.'(Sven‐Eric Bechtolf)

With German and English surtitles.

Christoph Eschenbach, Conductor
Sven‐Eric Bechtolf, Director
Rolf Glittenberg, Scenography
Marianne Glittenberg, Costume Design

Jürgen Hoffmann, Lighting Desing
Ronny Dietrich, Dramaturgy
Ernst Raffelsberger, Choir Conductor

Malin Hartelius, Fiordiligi

Marie‐Claude Chappuis, Dorabella

Martina Janková, Despina

Martin Mitterrutzner, Ferrando

Luca Pisaroni, Guglielmo

Gerald Finley, Don Alfonso


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Wiener Philharmoniker