Mozart: Così fan tutte
Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 2nd August 2020
Così fan tutte is usually translated into English as “All women are like that”. At this summer’s Salzburg Festival, Christof Loy prefers to focus on the opera’s subtitle, La scuola degli amanti (The School for Lovers). In a typically minimalist, monochrome setting, the German director has some bitter lessons to deliver and it’s not just the four lovers who come off badly. Johannes Martin Kränzle’s quick-tempered, wiry-toned Don Alfonso – the opera’s manipulator-in-chief – soon becomes despondent that his experiment is going to cause so much turbulence, making one wonder why he proposed it in the first place.
Andrè Schuen (Guglielmo), Elsa Dreisig (Fiordiligi), Marianne Crebassa (Dorabella)
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