Screening of Netia Jones's contemporary staging of Mozart's 'Così fan tutte', conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock and sung in Italian, within the RB&O cycle.
MK Gallery is screening Mozart's Così fan tutte on Sunday 28 February, as part of the RB&O cinema cycle. It's a retransmission of the Royal Opera production directed by Netia Jones, and since it's a cinema screening, you'll get the whole thing on the big screen rather than a live performance in the room.
If you're not familiar with the story, Così fan tutte first scandalised audiences back in 1790. It's a comedy of manners that follows two young men who, spurred on by a bet, hatch a plan to test the fidelity of their girlfriends. The whole thing plunges the four lovers into a world of shifting reality where truth becomes unstable. This particular staging is a Main Stage debut for Netia Jones, Associate Director of The Royal Opera, and she reimagines the work through a sharp contemporary lens, where 18th-century romantic trickery meets satirical high-tech deceit. The performance is sung in Italian.
The cast is led by a young ensemble: Louise Alder, Simone McIntosh, Mingjie Lei and Huw Montague Rendall, with Gerald Finley as Don Alfonso and Emily Pogorelc as Despina. Thomas Hengelbrock conducts.
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It's a long one, so clear your afternoon: the screening starts at 2.00pm and runs for 210 minutes. Tickets range from free to £19, depending on where you sit.
