Cosi fan tutte - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Estates Theatre

Premiere: 23rd Januar 2010

Musical preparation and conductor: Robert Jindra
Director: Martin Čičvák
Stage design: Tom Ciller
Costumes: Marija Havran
Chorus master: Martin Buchta
Dramaturgy: Ondřej Hučín

Fiordiligi: Csilla Boross / Marie Fajtová / Pavla Vykopalová
Dorabella: Annely Peebo / Stanislava Jirků / Katarzyna Kuncio
Ferrando: Jaroslav Březina / Aleš Briscein
Guglielmo: Jiří Hájek / Adam Plachetka / Svatopluk Sem
Despina: Kateřina Kněžíková / Lenka Máčiková / Yukiko Šrejmová Kinjo
Don Alfonso: Martin Gurbal' / Peter Mikuláš / František Zahradníček

Orchestra and Choir of the National Theatre Opera.

The opera Cosi fan tutte is another continuation of the Mozart “series” at the Estates Theatre. Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto, replete with irony and extremely unflattering to (not only) women, was originally supposed to be set to music by Antonio Salieri, who renounced his intention in the very beginning. Mozart, however, amid Ponte’s extremely chamber-like, even intimate, story came into his element. Using a mere six characters, at the turn of 1790 he created a work so inspired musically that it was to become one of the apices of his oeuvre. The opera Cosi fan tutte (or Thus Do They All), with the subheading The School for Lovers, is a black comedy exploring human flightiness, defencelessness against one’s own emotions and the nature of love, which – fidelity or infidelity – is actually always absolutely “sincere“.

Running time: 3 hours
The opera is staged in Italian original version and Czech and English surtitles are used in the performance.