
Giacomo Puccini

Mieczysław Weinberg

Giuseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Benjamin Britten

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Carl Maria von Weber — Gustav Mahler

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Richard Strauss

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Antonín Dvořák

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gaetano Donizetti

Sergei Banevich

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

George Frideric Handel

Tatiana Kamysheva

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Giacomo Puccini

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Dmitri Shostakovich

Richard Strauss

Georges Bizet

Gioacchino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich

Georges Bizet

Anton Rubinstein
Alexei Verstovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jacques Offenbach

Antonio Salieri

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky
Hector Berlioz

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Umberto Giordano

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioachino Rossini

Dimitry Rostovsky

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Guiseppe Verdi

Sergei Prokofiev

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart created three operas based on the libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. The first two, Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, quickly received public admiration and were considered masterpieces. The third part, Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti waited for its lucky hour for a lot longer. Only one and a half centuries later was it fully appreciated, and these days it is staged as often as the other two operas.
Così fan tutte was first performed on the 26th of January 1790 in Vienna’s Burgtheater, but from February the theatres were shut due to the mourning of the death of Emperor Joseph II. In the summer of that year the opera was performed five times and then left the stage.
Premiered on May 24, 2014.
Presented with one interval.
Act I
Ferrando is in love with Dorabella and Guglielmo is in love with Fiordiligi, her sister. Don Alfonso outrages the men by stating that the girls will sooner or later be unfaithful to them; he makes a bet with them that he can prove his words within the space of a day, but that Ferrando and Guglielmo must follow his orders completely during that time. Dorabella and Fiordiligi are waiting impatiently and longingly for their lovers. Alfonso, however, arrives instead and imparts the disastrous news that their fiances must leave immediately for the battlefield. The couples swear eternal fidelity and with great difficulty the sisters bid farewell to their lovers. Ferrando and Guglielmo leave for the front.
Dorabella cannot restrain her despair. The servant girl Despina reacts matter-of-factly and advises the sisters to look for new lovers. Alfonso decides to involve Despina partially in his plans. He introduces her to two exotic foreigners whom he says are in love with Fiordiligi and Dorabella: Despina’s job is to help them obtain their desires. The men’s disguise is complete, for Despina does not recognise them. The sisters are horrified that strange men have gained access to their house. Fiordiligi is offended to the core by their shameless courting and proclaims the steadfastness of her and Dorabella’s fidelity.