ROH Live: Cosi Fan Tutte
ROH Live: Cosi Fan Tutte
Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young and up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Winters in a new production of Mozart and Da Ponte’s opera on the nature of love.
Così fan tutte was Mozart’s third and final collaboration with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, following Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. Like its predecessors, Così exemplifies the heights opera can reach when the skills of composer and librettist are perfectly matched. But Così’s reception has always been more complex than that of the other Mozart/Da Ponte operas, with the opera variously considered immoral, unfinished, cruel or simply odd since its 1790 premiere. Now finally accepted as one of Mozart’s masterpieces, it is celebrated as much for its nuanced depiction of love as for its glorious music – a near continuous roll-call of favorites, including the terzetto ‘Soave sia il vento’ and the arias ‘Come scoglio,’ ‘Tradito, schernito’ and ‘È amore un ladroncello.’
German director Jan Philipp Gloger makes his Royal Opera debut with this new production of Così fan tutte, following such previous credits as Der fliegende Holländer for the Bayreuth Festival and Der Rosenkavalier for Dutch National Opera. He and his team of regular collaborators take their inspiration from Mozart and Da Ponte’s alternative title for the opera: ‘The School for Lovers.’ Don Alfonso, a mischievous theatrical impresario, leads the young lovers on a journey through their emotions, using all the resources of his theater in a quest to prove to them that, in Gloger’s words, ‘love is not a God-given thing, but something that we have to fight for, find, define, create and dream newly, almost every day.’
CAPTURED LIVE AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE MONDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2016
OPERA BUFFA IN TWO ACTS
MUSIC ~ WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
LIBRETTO ~ LORENZO DA PONTE
CONDUCTOR ~ SEMYON BYCHKOV
DIRECTOR ~ JAN PHILIPP GLOGER
SET DESIGNER ~ BEN BAUR
COSTUME DESIGNER ~ KARIN JUD
LIGHTING DESIGNER ~ BERND PURKRABEK
DRAMATURG ~ KATHARINA JOHN
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS
CHORUS DIRECTOR ~ WILLIAM SPAULDING
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
CONCERT MASTER ~ PETER MANNING
FORTEPIANO CONTINUO ~ MARK PACKWOOD
FERRANDO ~ DANIEL BEHLE
GUGLIELMO ~ ALESSIO ARDUINI
DON ALFONSO ~ JOHANNES MARTIN KRÄNZLE
FIORDILIGI ~ CORINNE WINTERS
DORABELLA ~ ANGELA BROWER
DESPINA ~ SABINA PUÉRTOLAS
Così fan tutte was Mozart’s third and final collaboration with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, following Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. Like its predecessors, Così exemplifies the heights opera can reach when the skills of composer and librettist are perfectly matched. But Così’s reception has always been more complex than that of the other Mozart/Da Ponte operas, with the opera variously considered immoral, unfinished, cruel or simply odd since its 1790 premiere. Now finally accepted as one of Mozart’s masterpieces, it is celebrated as much for its nuanced depiction of love as for its glorious music – a near continuous roll-call of favorites, including the terzetto ‘Soave sia il vento’ and the arias ‘Come scoglio,’ ‘Tradito, schernito’ and ‘È amore un ladroncello.’
German director Jan Philipp Gloger makes his Royal Opera debut with this new production of Così fan tutte, following such previous credits as Der fliegende Holländer for the Bayreuth Festival and Der Rosenkavalier for Dutch National Opera. He and his team of regular collaborators take their inspiration from Mozart and Da Ponte’s alternative title for the opera: ‘The School for Lovers.’ Don Alfonso, a mischievous theatrical impresario, leads the young lovers on a journey through their emotions, using all the resources of his theater in a quest to prove to them that, in Gloger’s words, ‘love is not a God-given thing, but something that we have to fight for, find, define, create and dream newly, almost every day.’
CAPTURED LIVE AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE MONDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2016
OPERA BUFFA IN TWO ACTS
MUSIC ~ WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
LIBRETTO ~ LORENZO DA PONTE
CONDUCTOR ~ SEMYON BYCHKOV
DIRECTOR ~ JAN PHILIPP GLOGER
SET DESIGNER ~ BEN BAUR
COSTUME DESIGNER ~ KARIN JUD
LIGHTING DESIGNER ~ BERND PURKRABEK
DRAMATURG ~ KATHARINA JOHN
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS
CHORUS DIRECTOR ~ WILLIAM SPAULDING
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
CONCERT MASTER ~ PETER MANNING
FORTEPIANO CONTINUO ~ MARK PACKWOOD
FERRANDO ~ DANIEL BEHLE
GUGLIELMO ~ ALESSIO ARDUINI
DON ALFONSO ~ JOHANNES MARTIN KRÄNZLE
FIORDILIGI ~ CORINNE WINTERS
DORABELLA ~ ANGELA BROWER
DESPINA ~ SABINA PUÉRTOLAS
Genre
Opera,
Culture Vulture
Runtime
215
Language
English
Director
Semyon Bychkov ~ conductor
Cast
Corinne Winters,
Angela Brower
Played at
Pasadena
Playhouse 7
Beverly Hills
Fine Arts Theatre
Encino
Town Center 5
Claremont
Claremont 5
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