Così fan tutte

Così fan tutte - production Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker 2016

• Conductor

  Pablo Heras-Casado; Alessandro Di Stefano

• Music

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  (1756 – 1791)

• Libretto

  Lorenzo Da Ponte

• Direction and choreography

  Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

• Set and lighting design

  Jan Versweyveld

• Costume design

  An D’Huys

• Dramaturgy

  Jan Vandenhouwe

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?

Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
With the dancers of the Rosas company

Così fan tutte

Così fan tutte - production Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker 2016

• Fiordiligi

  Vannina Santoni

• Dorabella

  Angela Brower

• Despina

  Hera Hyesang Park

• Ferrando

  Josh Lovell

• Guglielmo

  Gordon Bintner

• Don Alfonso

  Paulo Szot

• Fiordiligi (Dancer)

  Cynthia Loemij

• Dorabella (Dancer)

  Samantha Van Wissen

• Despina (Dancer)

  Marie Goudot

• Ferrando (Dancer)

  Julien Monty

• Guglielmo (Dancer)

  Michaël Pomero

• Don Alfonso (Dancer)

  Boštjan Antončič

• Carlos Garbin