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Two couples, a bogus call to military service, and a devious puppetmaster are the basic ingredients of this light-hearted drama.


Ferrando and Guglielmo are actually in love with their fiancées Fiordiligi and Dorabella, but leave them behind to go off to war. When the men seemingly die in battle, the women are left to grieve, each finding their way back to life in very different manners. Or was it all just an elaborate ploy by the men?

In dissecting the psyches of the two women—how they deal with grief and physical desire—Kirill Serebrennikov’s production makes Mozart’s masterpiece more sensually delectable than ever.

‘Not only is it entertaining, enthralling, amusing, and deeply multilayered, it’s also sensationally staged and acted. Mozart would have been delighted. His music is sexy, ironic, and profound, as is Da Ponte’s storyline. This is where they meet their master director and a brilliant company of singers’ [INFORADIO].

  • 3 h 23 min incl. break
  • Italian

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Wolfgang Amadeus MozartDramma giocoso in two acts [1790]Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

In Kooperation mit dem Opernhaus Zürich
Participating artists
Jean-Christophe Charron (Chor)
Tatyana Dolmatovskaya (Co-Kostümbildnerin)
Olaf Freese (Licht)
Maximilian Hagemeyer (Dramaturgie)
Evgeny Kulagin (Umsetzung Inszenierung, Choreographie)
Katharina Müllner (Musikalische Leitung)
Kirill Serebrennikov (Inszenierung)
Kirill Serebrennikov (Bühnenbild und Kostüme)
Erina Yashima (Musikalische Leitung)
Nadja Mchantaf (Fiordiligi)
Penny Sofroniadou (Fiordiligi)
Deniz Uzun (Dorabella)
Susan Zarrabi (Dorabella)
Hubert Zapiór (Guglielmo)
James Newby (Guglielmo)
Caspar Singh (Ferrando)
Tansel Akzeybek (Ferrando)
Alma Sadé (Despina)
Günter Papendell (Don Alfonso)
Seth Carico (Don Alfonso)
Amer El-Erwadi (Sempronio)
Goran Jurenec (Tizio)
Chorsolisten der Komischen Oper Berlin (Chor)
Dates
January 2024
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