50's Makeover

Flirtation and fidelity are the order of the day in Mozart's sublime opera buffa Cosi Fan Tutte (which translates are 'women are all, and always so.'). Directed by the award-winning Philem McDermott, set designed by Tom Pye and conducted by Royal Northern Sinfonia Conductor Dinis Sousa, this adaptation from the English National Opera unfurls its exquisite arias in a 1950s Coney Island fairground!

What is the story?

Two Sisters, Fiordiligi and Dorabella are persistently wooed by a pair of foreigners while their soldier fiances are away at war, but this is just a test of fidelity set up by the philosophizing master of ceremonies, Don Alfonso who gains a collaborator in Despina the maid. Alas, the foreigners are in fact they're betrothed in disguise. Guglielmo and Ferrando set out to seduce the other's partner in order to win the wager set before them by Alfonso. Over the course of the deception, the young couple's definition of love and certainty is thrown off-kilter, with their feelings revealed to us through Mozart's masterful score.