
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fidelity and betrayal? Or have the confusions to which the main characters subject one another ensured that in spite of the heartfelt love duets and superficially fleetfooted comedy nothing will work any longer and that a sense of emotional erosion has replaced true feelings? Così fan tutte is a timeless work full of questions that affect us all. The Academy Award-winning director Michael Haneke once said that he was merely being precise and did not want to distort reality. In only his second opera production after Don Giovanni in 2006, he presents what ARTE described as a “disillusioned vision of love in an ice-cold, realistic interpretation”.
Sylvain Cambreling, Anett Fritsch, Paola Gardina, Juan Francisco Gatell, Andreas Wolf, Kerstin Avemo, William Shimell, Coro del Teatro Real de Madrid

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Abesalom and Eteri
1967

Marco Polo (An Opera Within an Opera)
2008

Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande
2012

Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
2018

Berg: Wozzeck
2018

La Traviata
2021

Farinelli
1994

Alban Berg - Wozzeck
2016

Madama Butterfly
1986

Janacek: Jenufa
2009

The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
2017