The opera Cosi Fan Tutte ("Women are like that") was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. First performed in 1790, its classic tale of fiance swapping and female guile has thrilled audiences for more than two centuries. Cosi Fan Tutte is sung in Italian, with English supertitles.
Cosi Fan Tutte is a mischievous show which explores the effect of suspicion on those we love. Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are talking of their plans to marry two beautiful sisters, when the malicious Don Alfonso interrupts them by saying that women are unfaithful by nature. To prove him wrong, the friends devise a test. Pretending to be away fighting, they disguise themselves as two foreign soldiers and beg refuge with the sisters.
As a stellar cast blend their multitextured voices into a series of enchanting duets and quintets, Ferrando and Guglielmo try their best to seduce each other’s partners. But is it the women who are all the same – or the men?
Cosi Fan Tutte borrows from serious and comic opera to produce a work of breathtaking structural and harmonic unity. Funny and shocking by turns, it should delight opera aficionados and newcomers alike.