Mozart's Cosi fan tutte

Mozart's opera Cosi fan tutte from La Scala, Milan.

Presented by Kate Molleson in conversation with Sarah Lenton.

A jaded old 'philosopher' bets his two younger friends that, within 24 hours, their respective lovers will be unfaithful to them. The two men set out to prove him wrong but what do you know...?

The title of Mozart's comedy, Così fan tutte – Women are all like that (where 'that' means being unfaithful) – is a bit of a spoiler. But nothing can spoil an evening in the company of some of Mozart's greatest music where orchestra and voices fuse in a beguiling succession of solo numbers and ensembles to create subtle psychological characterisation and an unsettling, ambiguous tension between comic and serious.

Fiordiligi - Elsa Dreisig
Dorabella - Nina van Essen
Despina - Sandrine Piau
Guglielmo - Luca Micheletti
Ferrando - Giovanni Sala
Don Alfonso - Gerald Finley
Chorus & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Alexander Soddy, conductor