In the edition dedicated to Pleasure in all its forms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s world-famous Italian triptych opera, which – with the usual provocative and irreverent tone that stems from the composer’s collaboration with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte – questions the loyalty and sincerity of love, can not miss.

It is the story of two young men who, on a bet with an old philosopher, test the love their girlfriends, two high-ranking sisters from Ferrara, feel for them. The last of Mozart’s opere buffe, Così fan tutte, is perhaps the most ambiguous, which for the first time applies the rules of “love games” to ladies of high society and no one comes out a winner or a loser: the male chauvinist clichés are partly abolished, just as the emotional depth of the female figures gives way to a far more complex vision than the usual eighteenth-century role-play.
Following the vicissitudes of Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Ferrando and Guglielmo, the audience is invited to the marvelous Teatro di Verzura at Castello di Spessa on Tuesday, July 8, and Thursday, July 10, with a new production by Piccolo Opera Festival under the musical direction of Federico Santi and the direction of Davide Garattini Raimondi.