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LOCATION:Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:Così fan tutte
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DESCRIPTION:Three men who make a bet. Two women who are the objects of this
  bet. Don Alfonso has thought up a perfidious game to test the faithfulnes
 s of these women: Fernando and Guglielmo are convinced that Fiordiligi and
  Dorabella would never betray them. They pretend to go off to war and retu
 rn in disguise to seduce their respective beloved as a supposed stranger: 
 If they succeed\, they have lost the bet and Don Alfonso is triumphant. Th
 is is the setup for Mozart’s Così fan tutte. A contemporary operatic su
 bject? It is primarily Mozart's music that secures this opera its place in
  the repertoire to this day\, for it looks deep into the characters’ hea
 rts without condemning them. When what began as a light-hearted game devel
 ops into a cruel experiment that ultimately pulls the rug out from under e
 veryone involved\, the music lays bare the characters’ emotions in all t
 heir complexity and contradiction\; it plumbs the existential depths of lo
 ve\, which we all experience in the same way regardless of gender – toda
 y as in 1790\, when Mozart's opera premiered. The Belgian directing collec
 tive FC Bergman\, which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale and rec
 ently celebrated a resounding success at the Ruhrtriennale\, is inclined t
 owards visually powerful surrealism in its theatrical language and tells 
 – for the first time in Berlin and in only its third opera production 
 – Così fan tutte as a story about young people of today who are playful
 ly searching for answers to the questions of life: What does love mean to 
 us? What roles do we play in life? Who manipulates whom? Is reality truly 
 always more sustainable than fantasy? Riccardo Minasi\, one of the most in
 teresting conductors in the field of historical performance practice\, is 
 working with the Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra for the first time. A youn
 g ensemble of soloists led by Elsa Dreisig as Fiordiligi explores the psyc
 hological facets of this many-layered game of love.
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