Synopsis
- “La scuola degli amanti” – “The school for lovers” – is the subsidiary title of the third and last collaboration between Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte. And sure enough, the four characters who receive their crash course in relationships in COSI FAN TUTTE learn a great deal – about life, about love and, above all, about themselves. The four young people we meet at the start of the opera, all firm believers in the moral code and preordained career paths that have been drilled into them since childhood, come increasingly to question the basis of their beliefs in the course of the opera. By the end of the story Ferrando, Guglielmo, Fiordiligi and Dorabella have come to the realisation that they will have to live with uncertainty over both their own feelings and the feelings of their partner. Yet this very uncertainty is a prerequisite for being able to understand and love the other person.
Conductor: Donald Runnicles; Director: Robert Borgmann; With Nicole Car, Stephanie Lauricella, John Chest, Paolo Fanale, Noel Bouley, Alexandra Hutton et al.
Premiere 25. September 2016
Crew
- Director: Robert Borgmann
- Costume Design: Michael Sontag
- Production Design: Lianne van de Laar, Carsten Rüger
- Score: Donald Runnicles, Raymond Hughes
