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Programme presenting rare and fascinating operatic performances

Programme presenting rare and fascinating performances and vividly communicating the immediacy of the live experience

Opera on 3: Mozart's Così fan tutte

Mozart's Così fan tutte

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Mozart's Così fan tutte

Tom Service introduces a performance of Mozart's Così fan tutte from Covent Garden.

Alexander Soddy conducts Mozart's comedy Così fan tutte from the Royal Opera House, starring Golda Schultz, Samantha Hankey, Daniel Behle, Gerald Finley and Jennifer France.

A jaded old 'philosopher' bets his two younger friends that, within 24 hours, their respective fiancées 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.

Recorded earlier this month at the Royal Opera House, and introduced by Tom Service in conversation with Mary Ann Smart.

Mozart: Così fan tutte

Fiordiligi ..... Golda Schultz (soprano)
Dorabella ..... Samantha Hankey (mezzo-soprano)
Ferrando ..... Daniel Behle (tenor)
Guglielmo ..... Andrè Schuen (baritone)
Don Alfonso ..... Gerald Finley (baritone)
Despina ..... Jennifer France (soprano)
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Alexander Soddy (conductor)

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