RB&O: Cosi fan Tutte

The Royal Opera House brings Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte to the Connaught Theatre on Sunday 28 February, as part of the Royal Ballet & Opera Cinema Season 2026/27. It's a screening of a Covent Garden production, so you get the full opera on the big screen right here in Worthing rather than having to make the trip to London.

Cosi fan Tutte is Mozart's comedy of manners, and it's been stirring things up since it first scandalised audiences in 1790. The plot is a classic setup: two young men, spurred on by a bet, hatch a plan to test the fidelity of their girlfriends. It plunges the four lovers into a world of shifting reality where truth becomes unstable and nothing is quite what it seems. In this staging, Royal Opera Associate Director Netia Jones reimagines the piece through a sharp contemporary lens, where 18th-century romantic trickery meets satirical high-tech deceit.

The production is sung in Italian with English subtitles, and the cast listed for this run includes Louise Alder as Fiordiligi, Simone McIntosh as Dorabella, Mingjie Lei as Ferrando, Gerald Finley as Don Alfonso, and Emily Pogorelc as Despina, with Thomas Hengelbrock conducting. It's worth keeping in mind that the cast isn't confirmed for this specific screening, so that might change by the time it hits the screen.

It's a matinee, starting at 2:00pm and running for about three and a half hours, including one interval. Tickets start from £10, with a £0.75 transaction fee on top. The screening carries a 12A certificate, so children under 12 need to be accompanied by an adult, and under-14s need an adult after 5pm — though since this is a mid-afternoon show, that second bit won't really come into play.