Mozart: Cosi fan tutte
Barbara Frittoli
Angelica Kirchschlager
Bo Skoyhus
Michael Schade
Monica Bacelli
Alessandro Corbelli
Orchestra and Choir of the Wiener Staatsoper
Ricardo Muti, conductor
Live at the Theater an der Wien in 1996
Riccardo Muti’s conducting of one of Mozart’s most beloved operas was hailed in the press for its “freshness, rapidity and wit” and for “its wonderfully balanced feeling of being up one moment and down the next”. Muti’s authoritative approach to Mozart’s music and the remarkably homogeneous team of international soloists was equally applauded. The outstanding performances by four of today’s leading Mozart singers - Barbara Frittoli Angelika Kirchschlager, Bo Skovhus and Michael Schade, was equally supported by the thoroughly musical approach to Mozart’s score taken by director Roberto de Simone. Cosi fan tutte is on of Mozart's most beloved operas and it is renowned for it freshness, rapidity and wit. Cosi was written quickly, over the autumn and winter months 1789 and premiered on January 26, 1790, on the eve of the Mozart's 34th birthday. Muti gives both the musicians and the audience time to appreciate Mozart’s music in all its beauty, formal mastery and, above all, in the endless variety of its depiction of human foibles. He manages to achieve a wonderful and entirely Mozartian balance between seriousness and comedy, between depth of emotion and Mediterranean light-heartedness. A co-production of Wiener Staatsoper with the Wiener Festwochen, this performance was recorded live at the Theater an der Wien in 1996 and captures a grand night of opera. ( Euroarts )
NTSC
REGION CODE: 0
PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9
SOUND FORMATS: PCM-STEREO, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1
SUBTITLES: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish
BOOKLET: English, German, French
RUN TIME: 187 mins
