Conclusion of the Opera Season in Brno: Premiere of Così fan tutte

Conclusion of the Opera Season in Brno: Premiere of Così fan tutte

A production of the opera Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been created by the National Theatre Brno under the direction of Anna Petrželková. Jana Šrejma Kačírková alternating with Pavla Vykopalová, Jana Hrochová alternating with Václava Krejčí, Roman Hoza alternating with Igor Loškár, the guest Polish tenor Karol Kozlowský and many other will be appearing in Petrželková’s opera debut. The musical production was by Jakub Klecker.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote Così fan tutte, an opera in two acts, after The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. The libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte tells of Ferrando and Guglielmo, who at the urging of the sceptical Don Alfonso decide to test the fidelity of their fiancées, but in the end are caught up in their own games. “Our production tries to turn its attention mainly to relationships between people. To show relations between partners in all their complexity. The young lovers in their pride in their game get well entangled in their own web. It is an avalanche of misunderstandings as is so often the case in relations between men and women. But this everywhere lurking temptation to betray oneself - either the body or its principles - for me definitely has become a key issue,” says the director Anna Petrželková.

The premiere of the opera will take place on May 18 at 7 p.m. in the Mahen Theatre.

Photo by Marek Olbrzymek

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