Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 (recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2009) BLU-RAY
$60.00
Out of Stock6+ weeks add to cart
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 (recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2009) BLU-RAY
Miah Persson, Isabel Leonard, Topi Lehtipuu, Bo Skovhus, Patricia Petibon / Wiener Philharmoniker, Adam Fischer
[ EuroArts / Unitel Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 February 2014
This item is currently out of stock. It may take 6 or more weeks to obtain from when you place your order as this is a specialist product.
Suitable for General Audiences
Director Claus Guth's production of Mozart's Da Ponte trilogy for the Salzburg Festival reaches its sensational conclusion with his elegant, stylish production of Così fan tutte from the "Haus für Mozart". Guth bolsters the unity of the cycle by making ingenious reference to his stagings of the first two works, Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni.
His widely acclaimed production of the trilogy consolidates Guth's international reputation as one of the most sought-afterstage directors of our time. Among his other major successes are Der fliegende Holländer in Bayreuth and Luisa Miller at the Bavarian State Opera.
Guth assembles a superb ensemble of young singers who toy with love and trust under the cynical gaze of ringmaster Bo Skovhus' Don Alfonso and his foxy, temperamental sidekick Despina, played by fiery young soprano Patricia Petibon. Baritone Florian Boesch and tenor Topi Lehtipuu ideally complement their frisky partners Miah Persson and Isabel Leonard.
Conductor Adam Fischer keeps the tempi brisk and the Wiener Philharmoniker on their toes in his layered reading of the score.
Picture format BD: 1080i Full HD - 16:9
Sounds formats BD: PCM 2.0, PCM 5.1
Region code: All
Booklet notes: English, G
"superbly cast, with not a weak link. Bo Skovhus, as a central Mephistophelian operator de nos jours, plays a savage dance-driven double-act with Patricia Petibon's red-haired biker of a Despina...Within a single, minimalist duplex apartment interior, illusion and disillusion constantly shift." BBC Music Magazine, December 2010 ****
"Guth has drawn marvellously natural acting from this cast (the hammy Despina excepted)...this opera's sisters have never been more gorgeous to behold...The ultra-suave Skovhus's Don Alfonso is a very cool customer indeed, full of cynicism and self-satisfaction...Playing with extreme beauty and technical mastery but not without incisiveness, the Vienna Philharmonic responds aptly to every dramatic nuance." International Record Review, November 2010
"Guth is deft at choreographing the pain and the embarrassment of "wrong" couples getting together...this is already a mighty contribution to the otherwise rather naturalistic Così filmography. Its musical performances are solid...its acting ones much more than that." Gramophone Magazine, March 2011
