Following on from their magnificent performances of Magic Flute in 2007, and Falstaff in 2008, Opera Project return to the lovely venue at St. John's College, Oxford with Mozart’s uncompromising treatise on love and fidelity. The premise of constant love is tested to the limits through the cynical manipulation of Don Alfonso as he strives to prove that the simplistic idealogies of his young companions are no more than the arrogance of youth.
Darker and more mature forces reveal themselves as a seemingly harmless wager on the constancy of love becomes an ever more dangerous game in which no character survives intact.
Mozart’s famously ambiguous ending remains one of the great challenges of opera as the participants career through an expanding array of complex emotions, each striving to find a personal resolution to this day of ill judged folly. With a strong root in Italianate design this stunning new production aims to raise more questions than perhaps it answers in Mozart’s darkest comedy.
‘directed with panache by Richard Studer and impressively conducted from the harpsichord by Jonathan Lyness’, Opera Now, Nov/Dec 2009
Opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
English Translation by Richard Studer
Director/Designer: Richard Studer
Conductor: Jonathan Lyness
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