Special offer. Mozart: Così fan tutte
Corinne Winters (Fiordiligi), Angela Brower (Dorabella), Daniel Behle (Ferrando), Alessio Arduini (Guglielmo), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Alfonso), Sabina Puertolas (Despina)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Semyon Bychkov, Jan Philipp Gloger (dir.)
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, Opera Choice
Musically, it is an almost unqualified success…The settings and costumes are wildly miscellaneous…The singers, mainly young and comparatively unfamiliar, are all personable and have attractive...
Special offer. Mozart: Così fan tutte
Corinne Winters (Fiordiligi), Angela Brower (Dorabella), Daniel Behle (Ferrando), Alessio Arduini (Guglielmo), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Alfonso), Sabina Puertolas (Despina)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Semyon Bychkov, Jan Philipp Gloger (dir.)
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, Opera Choice
Musically, it is an almost unqualified success…The settings and costumes are wildly miscellaneous…The singers, mainly young and comparatively unfamiliar, are all personable and have attractive...
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‘The school for lovers’, Mozart’s alternative title for Così fan tutte, is given a playful, theatrical treatment by German director Jan Philipp Gloger, who sets this new production for The Royal Opera in a theatre.
The four lovers are performed by a cast of young rising stars, with Sabina Puértolas as the fun-loving Despina and acclaimed German baritone and comic genius Johannes Martin Kränzle as the impresario Don Alfonso, who leads the lovers on a role-playing journey full of picturesque settings. Semyon Bychkov conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in one of Mozart’s most beautiful scores, packed with wonderful arias and ensembles.
What the press said:
‘‘Semyon Bychkov gives an enthralling lesson in Mozart from the outset.’’ (Evening Standard)
‘‘…this Così is potent and properly unsettling.’’ (The Evening Standard)
Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/JP/KO
Running time: 164 minutes
Sound format: LPCM 2.0, DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio (BLU-RAY)
Contents and tracklist
- Corinne Winters (Fiordiligi), Angela Brower (Dorabella), Daniel Behle (Ferrando), Alessio Arduini (Guglielmo), Martin Kränzle (Don Alfonso), Sabina Puertolas (Despina)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Semyon Bychkov, Jan Philipp Gloger (dir.)
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineJune 2018Opera Choice
June 2018
Musically, it is an almost unqualified success…The settings and costumes are wildly miscellaneous…The singers, mainly young and comparatively unfamiliar, are all personable and have attractive voices…These characters take themselves seriously as they should, which makes Così a painfully serious opera…No other performance that I have seen conveys its message more clearly.
June 2018
Gloger deconstructs Cosi from the opening bars…It’s all very meta…Daniel Behle copes with the slow tempos the best to deliver a beautiful ‘Un aura amorosa’.
August 2018
Bychkov’s stance is also a surprising one in that a musician mostly associated with the biggest Romantic repertoire here treads the finest of lines in conveying Mozartian lightness and grace; in addition, he allows his singers individual freedom and the chance to decorate their lines with style. The result is a thought- provoking yet entertaining Cosi which will surely repay repeated encounters.
