Cosi fan tutte

Synopsis

Two officers wager that their lovers would be faithful while they're away, and decide to test them. Faking a sudden departure to battle they return disguised to try and seduce each other's partners. The results quickly get out of hand.

Our Review:

17 November 2009

You’d be hard put to find a more delectable soprano trio than that of Gillian Ramm (Fiordiligi), Lucia Cirillo (Dorabella) and Simona Mihai (Despina) in the revival of Nicholas Hynter’s production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte by Ashley Dean for Glyndebourne on Tour. They act well, look their parts and sing extremely well indeed.

This is a sun-lit – rather than sun-drenched – production, high on nuance as well as rejoicing in the more farcical moments. The resolution of the unresolved ending works well; you believe that Fiordiligi as well as Guglielmo face a real crisis of emotion, Despina is left wondering if money really does solve problems and that Don Alfonsa’s Rousseauesque philosopher pose might cover altogether more disturbing manipulative aims.

Ramm copes equally well with the fireworks of “Come scoglio” and the heartbreak of “Per pieta” and leads the concerted numbers with passion and precision. From her first ...

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