Così fan tutte at Den Norske Opera & Ballett

Award-winning theatre director Jonas Corell Petersen stages Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s comical work about the seriousness of desire, Così fan tutte.

It all starts with a wager – two young, self-confident men, Guglielmo and Ferrando, praise their fiancées, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, for their faithfulness. The older and somewhat cynical Don Alfonso asks what these women are made of – are they not flesh and blood, like everyone else? The young men set out to test the two sisters to prove that they are right, thereby setting the scene for a game of disguises, role reversals, eroticism and jealousy. How long can we keep up the act? And how faithful are we, both to others and to ourselves?