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Così fan tutte
Palais Garnier
19h30
Dress Cocktail attire
Why choose between music and dance? In Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's version of Così fan tutte, the two are intimately linked. Pairing each singer with a dancer, the Belgian choreographer, founder of the Rosas company, reveals the sinuosities of desire and the attractions between bodies in the course of the amorous chassé-croisé composed by Mozart with his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. For their third collaboration after The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni, the two partners adopt a story with vaudeville overtones. Devoid of illusions concerning human nature, Don Alfonso decides to test the fidelity of women: their fiancés pretend to go to war and return to seduce them using new identities. The gaiety of the score gives way to muted anxiety: is this a farewell to the ideals of youth or the end of a world shattered in 1789, a year before the premiere of Così fan tutte?
Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte - production Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker 2016
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Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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ConductorPablo Heras-Casado
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Chorus masterAlessandro Di Stefano
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Libretto
Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Direction and choreography
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
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Set and lighting design
Jan Versweyveld
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Costume design
An D’Huys
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Dramaturgy
Jan Vandenhouwe
Cast
Santoni
Fiordiligi
Brower
Dorabella
Park
Despina
Lovell
Ferrando
Bintner
Guglielmo
Szot
Don Alfonso
Loemij
Fiordiligi (Dancer)
Wissen
Dorabella (Dancer)
Goudot
Despina (Dancer)
Monty
Ferrando (Dancer)
Pomero
Guglielmo (Dancer)
Antončič
Don Alfonso (Dancer)
Garbin
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
With the dancers of the Rosas company