| Date and venue | Title | Submitted by |
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| 2-Mar-2013 Hackney Empire | A frivolous Così fan tutte: English Touring Opera at Hackney Empire | Emily Owen |
 Mozart’s Così fan tutte is a comic opera filled with deceit, disguises and betrayal, all carried along by a breathtaking score and witty lyrics. What better way to start ETO’s Spring 2013 season than with a new rendering of this timeless work, in a brilliantly clever English translation by Martin Fitzpatrick. The curtain rose to reveal a simple, minimalistic set, designed by Samal Blak, who is the combined set and costume designer for all three of ETO’s operas this season.Read full review... | ||
| 11-Nov-2012 Mercury Theatre | Auckland Opera Studio's Così fan tutte makes for an ebullient and moving evening | Simon Holden |
| Auckland Opera Studio’s offering this year was an ebullient rendition of Mozart’s immortal comedy Così fan tutte. The recitatives were mostly replaced by English dialogue, though the accompanied recitatives were maintained. No composer makes more of recitative than Mozart so it was a shame to lose them, but the cast delivered the dialogue clearly and it contributed to a fast-paced, thrilling show. More than most operas, Così fan tutte really does benefit from a young, good-looking cast who all just happen to be very promising singers. Read full review... | ||
| 28-Apr-2012 Upstairs at the Gatehouse | A Wartime Così fan tutte | Hilary Fisher |
 Production director Daisy Evans welcomes her audience to Così fan tutte set in October 1943 in Sicily. The set (designed by Katharine Heath) is intriguing, with three propellers along the back wall of the performance space and a small stage at the side set up for an Ensa troupe. However, concerns about the pitfalls of “concept” productions were confirmed from the start. Back-projections of Second World War film footage accompanied the overture; the first of many incongruities and distractions.Read full review... | ||
| 20-Mar-2012 Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre | Così fan tutte at Sydney Opera House | Oliver Brett |
 Another Mozart opera and another intriguing modern production from Opera Australia. The whole opera was presented as entertainment for a wedding reception, with a bride and bridegroom sitting at two corners of the stage, their sole purpose for the production to observe the unfolding comedy on stage. With their backs to the audience, it was almost as if we were their invited wedding guests, enjoying the entertainment with them.
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| 18-Mar-2012 John Jay College: The Gerald W Lynch Theater | NYC Opera’s Così a Sardonic Stunner | Gale Martin, operatoonity.com |
 It was a glass-smashing, balloon-popping, bearskin-wearing, strip-out-of-your-swimsuit-onstage kind of afternoon at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater for the opening of New York City Opera’s second production of the 2012 season, Mozart’s Così fan tutte.
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| 26-Feb-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Grand Theatre | Bavarian State Opera: Così fan tutte at the Hong Kong Arts Festival | Alan Yu, alanayu.wordpress.com |
 Wilfried Hösl_MG_7941.jpg) For its 40th anniversary, the Hong Kong Arts Festival chose Mozart’s Così fan tutte as its main opera offering. Whatever you may call it – opera buffa, comedy of manners, or “dramma giocoso” – Mozart’s lovely music makes Così fan tutte wonderful entertainment. That’s what the Bavarian State Opera delivered on Sunday afternoon to commemorate this important milestone of the Festival.
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| 25-Feb-2012 Kennedy Center: Opera House | Così fan tutte – e sempre! | Raisa Massuda, mandolinvision.blogspot.com |
 I hear that both you and your friend are getting married to wealthy and pretty ladies from Washington DC?
My heartiest congratulations, gentlemen! As my early wedding gift, allow me to offer you some marriage wisdom: when your beloved betray you, remember to forgive them and keep living happily ever after.
Don’t believe in betrayal? Well, then, allow me to prove my point.
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| 27-Jan-2012 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Miller's no-frills Mozart is back: Così fan tutte at the Royal Opera House | Francesca Vella |
 PERSSON.jpg) The last opera of the Mozart/Da Ponte cycle – the second of the composer’s operas to be performed in this Mozart-dominated season at the Royal Opera House – Così fan tutte pivots on two pairs of young lovers whose affection is put to the test by an old ‘philosopher’, Don Alfonso. Women, the old man argues, are all the same: never constant in their love, never loyal to their men. It takes three hours of musical comedy and a long list of artfully arranged expedients to demonstrate the sage’s maxim.Read full review... | ||
| 2-Jul-2011 Royal College of Music: Britten Theatre | The Royal College of Music International Opera School perform Così Fan Tutte | Laura Kate Wilson |
 The Royal College of Music’s International Opera School has long been a training ground for some of the world’s most famous opera stars. Dame Joan Sutherland, Sarah Connolly, Gerald Findlay and Sir Thomas Allen all began their careers there, so it is with great excitement that you attend an RCM Opera School performance, wondering if you are about to witness singers at the beginning of a journey to international success.Read full review... | ||
| 27-Apr-2011 Younger Hall | Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Renata Pokupić and Jean-Christophe Spinosi | Rohan Shotton |
 A significantly smaller than usual audience was present for the SCO’s ‘Symphonic Opera’ concert, the finale of its St Andrews season. In the days leading up to thee concert, there was some disgruntlement from people about the programme – “Another Haydn symphony” was a common complaint, the Orchestra having put on several in St Andrews recently. Despite this, the singing, playing and conducting were superb, and any notions of being tired of the repertoire were quickly extinguished.
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| 9-Apr-2011 City Hall Concert Hall | The Hong Kong Philharmonic turns light entertainment into high artistic accomplishment | Alan Yu, alanayu.wordpress.com |
| Giving its concert on April 9th the subtitle “Sing Mozart Sing” and promoting it with a tongue-in-cheek portrait of the mischievous genius with his mouth half open in a wry smile, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra probably intended the audience to expect an evening of cheerful and light entertainment. The programming suited this intention down to a tee. Progressing from the baroque to the classical, it was chronologically correct, and temperamentally appropriate.
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| 24-Nov-2010 Royal Academy of Music, Sir Jack Lyons Theatre | Così fan tutte at the Royal Academy of Music | David Karlin |
 The Royal Academy of Music has a small but beautifully refurbished theatre, the 230 seat Sir Jack Lyons Theatre, where it stages full opera performances. Although many of the seats are taken by Academy staff, performers' friends and families, talent scouts and others with specific reasons for being there, some of the tickets are available to the public.Read full review... | ||
