Così fan tutte
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Take two boastful young lovers, each a bit too sure of himself, each convinced that his beloved is beyond compare. Add to this a wise old man who decides to teach them a lesson. Run the whole through a wager, mix and heat under pressure: 24 hours in Naples, the year of your choice.
When the libretto is by Lorenzo da Ponte and Mozart composes the music for a third collaboration after Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, this recipe produces an astonishing masterpiece. Astonishing indeed, because while all the ingredients of a misogynistic fable seem to be united here, the Mozartian score reveals something completely different: a brilliantly ironic comedy on the inevitable impermanence of even the most sincere sentiments, and the humility necessary to face our own imperfections along with everyone else’s. To this sweet-and-sour mix, we must also add the sensitivity and sensuality that constitute the basis of all existence. The result is a melancholic ballet between life as we live it and as we could have lived it – and on the wisdom that can be drawn therein.
Photograph : Manon Boyer
Musique Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Livret Lorenzo Da Ponte
Direction musicale Guillaume Tourniaire
Chef de chant et continuiste (pianoforte) Benjamin Laurent
Continuiste (violoncelle) François Gallon
Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne
Chœur de l’Opéra de Dijon
Chef de chœur Anass Ismat
Pianiste du chœur Maurizio Prosperi
Mise en scène & scénographie Dominique Pitoiset
Assistanat à la scénographie & lumières Christophe Pitoiset
Costumes Nadia Fabrizio
Maquillage & coiffures Cécile Kretschmar
Assistanat à la mise en scène Jeanne Pansard-Besson
Assistanat aux costumes Camille Pénager
Fiordiligi Andreea Soare
Dorabella Fiona Mc Gown
Despina Andrea Hill
Ferrando Maciej Kwaśnikowski
Guglielmo Timothée Varon
Alfonso David Bizic
Figurants Hafida Benyattou, Patrick Partouche, Théo Fabrizio et Aurélien Marquet
Avec le mécénat du Crédit Agricole de Champagne-Bourgogne