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The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte (2014)
Directed by Gary Halvorson
Overview
Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy about testing the ties of love. Susanna Phillips and Isabel Leonard are the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, who are led to believe their fiancés have gone off to war. Matthew Polenzani and Rodion Pogossov are Ferrando and Guglielmo, the lovers who return in disguise to test their girls’ fidelity. Danielle de Niese sings the scheming maid Despina and Maurizio Muraro is Don Alfonso, the philosopher and mastermind pulling the strings.
Length 202 minutes
Actors
Susanna Phillips | Isabel Leonard | Rodion Pogossov | Matthew Polenzani | Danielle de Niese | Maurizio Muraro | Renée Fleming | MET Orchestra