Mozart: Così fan tutte ****
Glyndebourne, 13th October 2017
I often wonder what happened to Don Alfonso to make him so cynical. In a recent programme note, conductor Philippe Jordan expounds his theory that, in the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas, Cherubino (the randy page from Figaro) grows up to be libertine Don Giovanni who, in turn, becomes Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte. “All he has left is his sense of irony to ridicule those young people who have not yet experienced the throes of love.” In Nicholas Hytner’s chocolate box production, lovingly revived by Bruno Ravella for Glyndebourne’s tour, Alfonso is the most charismatic character on the stage.
Ilya Kutyukhin, Kirsten MacKinnon (Fiordiligi), Bogdan Volkov and Rachel Kelly (Dorabella)
© Tristram Kenton
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