Teatro Comunale di Bologna

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Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Opera

Così fan tutte

, , , May · June 2025

Così fan tutte
Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Conductor and director

  • Conductor Martijn Dendievel
  • Director Alessandro Talevi

Characters and cast

Orchestra and chorus

  • Orchestra Orchestra
  • Chorus Coro
  • Chorus master Gea Garatti Ansini

Creative team

Lighting
Teresa Nagel
Video
Marco Grassivaro

Details

Production
New production of Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Information

The last fruit of the collaboration between Mozart and Da Ponte no longer sets classes, sexes and generations against each other as in Le nozze di Figaro, nor a single rebel against the whole of society as in Don Giovanni. Così fan tutte (1790) concentrates on self-discovery: on the unconscious, illusion, morality, reason and nature. The disguises and the swapped couples orchestrated by the philosopher Don Alfonso lay bare the souls, desires and feelings of Dorabella, Fiordiligi, Guglielmo and Ferrando. Unmasking female infidelity seems no more than a pretext, all the more so because the plot has an accomplice in the maid Despina, the shrewd voice of nature who defends a woman’s right to pleasure. Yet when the status quo is restored, with the claim that it is good to be guided by reason and to laugh at «what usually makes others weep», nothing can be as it was. The comedy has an ending as ambiguous as its unfolding: the philosopher’s cynicism triumphs, but at a high price, and eros is bound up with pathos.


Opera

Semele

23, 25 October 2026

Teatro Auditorium Manzoni

Semele
Conductor
Giulio Prandi

Opera

Samson et Dalila

13, 15 November 2026

Teatro Auditorium Manzoni

Samson et Dalila
Conductor
Roberto Abbado

Opera

La straniera

22, 24 January 2027

La straniera
Conductor
Fabrizio Maria Carminati

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