Season 2015/16
Opera
Così fan tutte
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti
Comic opera in two acts
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Program
First part: 1 hour and 32 minutes
Interval: 30 minutes
Second part: 1 hours and 28 minutes
Total duration: 3 hours and 30 minutes
Artists
Conductor
Roland Böer
Director
Lorenzo Mariani
Scenes
Maurizio Balò
Costumes
Silvia Aymonino
Light design
Linus Fellbom
Choir director
Lorenzo Fratini
Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Roland Böer
Director
Lorenzo Mariani
Scenes
Maurizio Balò
Costumes
Silvia Aymonino
Light design
Linus Fellbom
Choir director
Lorenzo Fratini
Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Fiordiligi
Carmela Remigio (18,21,25) / Elena Monti
Dorabella
Anna Goryachova (18,21,25) / Paola Gardina
Ferrando
Juan Francisco Gatell (18,21,25) / Alessandro Scotto di Luzio
Guglielmo
Simone Alberghini (18,21,25) / Francesco Salvadori
Don Alfonso
Omar Montanari (18,21,25) / Bruno Taddia
Despina
Giulia Semenzato (18,21,27) / Giuseppina Bridelli
Carmela Remigio (18,21,25) / Elena Monti
Dorabella
Anna Goryachova (18,21,25) / Paola Gardina
Ferrando
Juan Francisco Gatell (18,21,25) / Alessandro Scotto di Luzio
Guglielmo
Simone Alberghini (18,21,25) / Francesco Salvadori
Don Alfonso
Omar Montanari (18,21,25) / Bruno Taddia
Despina
Giulia Semenzato (18,21,27) / Giuseppina Bridelli
Approfondimenti
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
He was born in Salzburg in 1756 into a family of musicians. A child prodigy, he started playing the harpsichord at three and composed his first works at five. His father, Leopold, arranges for the talented young Amadeus tours in Frankfurt, Paris, London and Italy. Hired as a court musician in Salzburg in 1773, in 1777 he travels in search of a better job, but without success. Returning to Salzburg as the court organist in 1779, in 1781 he was dismissed "with a kick in the backside." He began composing on commission and for the audience, performing as a soloist in the Concerto in D minor, n. 20 K466 and the Concerto in C minor, n. 24 K491. This period of economic fortune had its climax in 1786 with the triumph of The Marriage of Figaro in Prague, where he received the commission for Don Giovanni. He was appointed composer to the imperial court in December 1787 but received only eight hundred florins per year instead of the two thousand Gluck was paid for the same position. He began to borrow money and go into debt. The year 1790 was the least productive for Mozart, however, he did compose Così fan tutte. In 1791 he composed The Magic Flute and a serious opera, La Clemenza di Tito, also receiving a mysterious commission for a requiem mass: he fell ill during its composition and died in Vienna on December 5, 1791.
ROLAND BÖER
He was born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, in Hessia, Germany in 1970. After his studies in piano, composition and conducting at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium of Francofurt and at the Hochschule für Musik of Würzburg, from 2008 he held the position of Kapellmeister at Oper Frankfurt. A guest at important institutions such as Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Royal Opera House and the English National Opera of London, Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, Deutsche Oper and Komische Oper of Berlin, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, he has also led orchestras such as the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester. Music Director of the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano since 2009, in 2014 he was nominated Artistic Director.
LORENZO MARIANI
Born in New York to Italian parents, he graduated in modern history from Harvard University. After his operatic debut in 1982 with Bluebeard’s Castle at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, he has worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, John Eliot Gardiner, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniele Gatti. He has created productions for theaters including San Carlo di Napoli, La Fenice di Venezia, Comunale di Bologna, Regio di Parma, Massimo di Palermo, Regio di Torino, Verdi di Trieste, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera di Chicago, Israel Opera, Opéra Royal de Wallonie and the Opera Nazionale Finlandese. From 2005 to 2012 he was the Artistic Director at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo.
MAURIZIO BALÒ
Born in Montevarchi in 1947, he studied architecture at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. As assistant to Emanuele Luzzati, he worked with stage directors such as Massimo Castri, Giancarlo Cobelli, Lorenzo Mariani, Federico Tiezzi, Werner Herzog, Michele Placido, Cesare Lievi and Roberto Valerio, creating scenes and sometimes the costumes. He is the winner of six Premi Ubu for Best Scenography.
SILVIA AYMONINO
Roman by birth, she began her career in that city’s Sartoria Tirelli. Here, working with Gabriella Pescucci e Maurizio Millenotti, she worked with the elaboration of materials. She worked with Giorgio d’Alberti in the creation of costumes for films and shows produced by the Sartoria between 1985 and 1993 for designers such as Piero Tosi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Franca Squarciapino, Vera Marzot, Carlo Diappi, Paul Brown. After her debut in 1996 as costume designer at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in Turandot, she has collaborated with stage directors including Luca Ronconi, Francesco Micheli, Damiano Michieletto, Lorenzo Mariani, Franco Ripa di Meana, Marco Gandini and Andrea Liberovici.