Winter Session 2016 – Così fan tutte

February 7 – March 3, 2016

 

D1M49616

Preliminary Application Deadline: November 15, 2015

FINAL Application Deadline: December 20, 2015

 

Lyric Opera Studio Weimar proudly presents Così fan tutte, Mozart’s comic masterpiece with serious undertones about love, fidelity, and deception.

When two handsome soldiers claim that their fiancées will be forever faithful, an old philosopher joins the discussion and bets the two officers that he can prove in a day’s time that these two women are fickle, just like all women. The wager is accepted and the two soldiers pretend to be called off to war; soon thereafter they will return in disguise and attempt to seduce each other’s lovely wife-to-be.

Così fan tutte’s cleverly constructed plot, light-hearted at first, gets complicated when hearts are torn and emotions conflicted. Will love and trust be restored so there is a “happy” ending with the original couples? Or will we be left to wonder: is there any such thing as “true love”? Filled with beautiful music, Così fan tutte (“Thus do they all”) was bracingly politically incorrect even for Mozart’s day. A period staging by LOSW’s General Director Damon Nestor Ploumis deftly blends elegance and farce to emphasize the very real human emotions embedded throughout Mozart’s miraculous score.

Roles

Fiordiligi           soprano                              Ferrando         tenor
Dorabella          mezzo-soprano                    Guglielmo       baritone
Despina             soprano                              Don Alfonso    bass / bass-baritone

 

 

Please visit our application page for further details.