Film

Cosi Fan Tutte

2023 · 2h 54m · Music

Opera Royal de Versailles

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!

Ana Maria Labin

Fiordiligi

Angela Brower

Dorabella

Miriam Albano

Despina

James Ley

Ferrando

Florian Sempey

Guglielmo

Alexandre Duhamel

Don Alfonso

Marc Minkowski

Conductor

• Ivan AlexandreDirector
• Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWriter

Release date

January 18, 2023

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 54m

Genres

Music