Description

Royal Opera
COSÌ FAN TUTTE [New production]
screening time: appr. 210 minutes, one intermission

CREATIVES
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock
Director: Netia Jones
Set Designer: Hyemi Shin
Costume Designers: Netia Jones, Hyemi Shin
Lighting Designer: Lucy Carter
Movement Director: Anna Morrissey

CAST
Fiordiligi: Louise Alder
Dorabella: Simone McIntosh
Ferrando: Mingjie Lei
Guglielmo: Huw Montague Rendall
Don Alfonso: Gerald Finley
Despina: Emily Pogorelc
Company: The Royal Opera Chorus
Music performed by: Orchestra of the Royal Ballet and Opera

SHORT SYNOPSIS
Two confident young men make a bet with a cynical philosopher that their respective fiancées will always remain faithful. Disguised as exotic strangers, they attempt to seduce each other’s partners in a comedic but emotionally complex and provocative test of love, loyalty, and the frailties of human nature.