Mozart: Così fan tutte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte
2 Full DVD9 | NTSC | All Regions | 16/9 | DTS Surround Sound | LPCM Stereo | VO: italian | 6,80 GB + 7,75 GB
English | French | Spanish | German | Italian Subtitles | Timing: 1h19 + 1 h 35
Recorded in June, July 2006, Glyndebourne Opera House | + cover
Genre: Opera
Penguin Guide:
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Actors:
Miah Persson… Fiordiligi
Luca Pisaroni… Guglielmo
Topi Lehtipuu… Ferrando
Anke Vondung… Dorabella
Nicolas Rivenq… Don Alfonso
Conductor: Ivan Fischer
Stage Director: Nicholas Hytner
'This is one of my favourite DVDs in the entire Opus Arte catalogue, and I hope you won't mind me sharing some of that enthusiasm with you.
For me, it goes without saying that Mozart was a genius, and I never tire of listening to his music. Together with his long-time collaborator Da Ponte, they created in Cosi fan tutte a comic play of love, deception, infidelity and forgiveness that is still relevant to our lives today. If the TV had been invented in the 1700s their soap-operas would have ruled the world!
Recorded at Glyndebourne in the Summer of 2006, this new Nicholas Hytner production has been described as 'shockingly traditional' which I think sums it up perfectly. The staging and costumes are bathed in glorious warm lighting (the importance of which I think is often overlooked), giving the production a bright, sun-kissed feeling as if Spring has just sprung. The conductor Ivan Fisher inspires The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to drench the score with a vast range of emotion which ranges from crisp, joyous, exuberance to dark, brooding, despair.
Above all it's the cast of outstanding soloists that truly breathe life into this production. They are of course wonderful singers, but what is even more important when watching a DVD, they act with absolute conviction. You really believe the heart-breaking moment when the two women lose their lovers… and be prepared for revenge later on when they realise what's really happened!' (Amazon)
Dressed in shades of sand and stone by Vicki Mortimer, and bathed in summer light by Paule Constable, Hytner's period production marries elegance, farce and psychological acuity.' (The Independent)
'…an evening of Mozartian magic… a staging that cries out to be revisited.' (Sunday Times)
'I had to search long and hard down memory lane to recall a Così that so vividly revealed both the pleasure and the overwhelming pain of this evermore disturbing masterpiece, and I failed.' (Opera)
2 Full DVD9 | NTSC | All Regions | 16/9 | DTS Surround Sound | LPCM Stereo | VO: italian | 6,80 GB + 7,75 GB
English | French | Spanish | German | Italian Subtitles | Timing: 1h19 + 1 h 35
Recorded in June, July 2006, Glyndebourne Opera House | + cover
Genre: Opera
Penguin Guide:
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Actors:
Miah Persson… Fiordiligi
Luca Pisaroni… Guglielmo
Topi Lehtipuu… Ferrando
Anke Vondung… Dorabella
Nicolas Rivenq… Don Alfonso
Conductor: Ivan Fischer
Stage Director: Nicholas Hytner
'This is one of my favourite DVDs in the entire Opus Arte catalogue, and I hope you won't mind me sharing some of that enthusiasm with you.
For me, it goes without saying that Mozart was a genius, and I never tire of listening to his music. Together with his long-time collaborator Da Ponte, they created in Cosi fan tutte a comic play of love, deception, infidelity and forgiveness that is still relevant to our lives today. If the TV had been invented in the 1700s their soap-operas would have ruled the world!
Recorded at Glyndebourne in the Summer of 2006, this new Nicholas Hytner production has been described as 'shockingly traditional' which I think sums it up perfectly. The staging and costumes are bathed in glorious warm lighting (the importance of which I think is often overlooked), giving the production a bright, sun-kissed feeling as if Spring has just sprung. The conductor Ivan Fisher inspires The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to drench the score with a vast range of emotion which ranges from crisp, joyous, exuberance to dark, brooding, despair.
Above all it's the cast of outstanding soloists that truly breathe life into this production. They are of course wonderful singers, but what is even more important when watching a DVD, they act with absolute conviction. You really believe the heart-breaking moment when the two women lose their lovers… and be prepared for revenge later on when they realise what's really happened!' (Amazon)
Dressed in shades of sand and stone by Vicki Mortimer, and bathed in summer light by Paule Constable, Hytner's period production marries elegance, farce and psychological acuity.' (The Independent)
'…an evening of Mozartian magic… a staging that cries out to be revisited.' (Sunday Times)
'I had to search long and hard down memory lane to recall a Così that so vividly revealed both the pleasure and the overwhelming pain of this evermore disturbing masterpiece, and I failed.' (Opera)