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Cosi Fan Tutte (2023)
Directed by Ivan Alexandre
“Opera Royal de Versailles”
Music · 2h 54m
Così fan tutte, or The School for Lovers, is the last joint opera buffa by Mozart and Da Ponte. The libretto and score were written in a month in December 1789, and the premiere took place at the end of January 1790, but the death of the Emperor interrupted the run after five performances. This Neapolitan-style comedy (the action is set in Naples!), but very much inspired by French comic opera, and in particular by Femmes Vengées composed by Philidor in 1775 to a libretto by Sedaine (which was performed in Vienna), where two women wanting to teach their husbands a lesson exchange their roles by cross-dressing… in order to seduce them and confuse them better! Twenty years later, Mozart and Da Ponte found exceptional inspiration for this comedy of manners in the spirit of Marivaux, where love, beauty and cruelty are subtly intertwined, until all hell breaks loose for some anthological moments!
Cast
Angela Brower
Florian Sempey
Marc Minkowski
Crew
- Director
- Ivan Alexandre
- Writer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Details
- Release date
- 2023-01-18
- Runtime
- 2h 54m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Opera Royal de Versailles