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The world is turned upside down for the four lovers of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte,” and Phelim McDermott’s new staging, a co-production with the English National Opera, which opened at the Metropolitan ...

3 Photos: New Look At JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR West End Starring Sam Ryder and More English National Opera is presenting COSÌ FAN TUTTE by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, ...

Relocating Mozart’s partner-swapping action from 18 th-century Naples to 1930’s Alexandria gives Attridge an exotic, expat playground to work with. Her two heroines pass their time playing beach games ...

Misogynist Don Alfonso is at the centre of things in this opera-within-an-opera benefiting from a witty translation into English, formidable arias and scene-stealing acting Atop its elegant ...

Lucy Crowe delivers a peerless Fiordiligi while Dinis Sousa conducts a fizzing account of Mozart’s opera about fidelity at the Coliseum Così fan tutte (Photo: James Glossop) It’s easy to forget just ...

For some people, the trouble with Mozart’s Così fan tutte is summed up in the title: “All women are like that”. Yet another example of opera’s inbuilt maltreatment of women? Perhaps, but then again, ...

Funny, fast and farcical – and that’s only the overture. In Phelim McDermott‘s new production of Così fan tutte for English National Opera (in collaboration with Improbable) there’s more comic ...

Opera San José will kick off its 42nd season with Mozart’s beloved romantic comedy Così Fan Tutte, a sparkling blend of charm and wit that plays out like an 18th-century reality show—“Temptation ...

Having first performed Cosi Fan Tutti back in 2004, Opera North bring the show back to Salford under the careful direction of Tim Albery. The opera begins with two officers, Ferrando and Guglielmo, ...

Two-act comic opera Così fan tutte (Women are like that) is the last of Mozart’s trio of collaborations with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Cosi was a commission from the court of the Habsburg monarch ...

On the basis of McDermott’s two previous shows for ENO – Philip Glass’s Satyagraha and The Perfect American – it was hard to know what to expect of a director still finding his feet in the opera house ...