CAST:
Miah Persson (Fiordiligi)
Isabel Leonard (Dorabella)
Topi Lehtipuu (Ferrando)
Florian Boesch (Guglielmo)
Bo Skovhus (Don Alfonso)
Patricia Petibon (Despina)
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Conductor: Adam Fischer
Director: Claus Guth
Sets: Christian Schmidt
Costumes: Anna Sofie Tuma
Lighting: Olaf Winter
Running
time:
3 hrs. with one intermission
Sung in
Italian with English subtitles
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With the new
production of Mozart’s Cosí fan
tutte from the coming Salzburg
Festival 2009, the German Director
Claus Guth will conclude his Mozart/Da
Ponte cycle, which he first started
with “Le nozze di Figaro” (starring
Anna Netrebko) in 2006, followed by
“Don Giovanni” (starring Christopher
Maltman, Erwin Schrott, Matthew
Polenzani, Annette Dasch, Dorothea
Röschmann) in 2008. The Hungarian
Conductor Adam Fischer, whose
recordings of Haydn's Symphonies No.
88 and 101 won the Echo Prize in
2008, will conduct the Vienna
Philharmonic. The Swedish Soprano
Miah Persson, guest at many
international companies and
festivals, will act as Fiordiligi.
Appearing as her sister Dorabella
will be Isabel Leonard. This young
Mezzo-Soprano is already making
waves in the world of classical
music both at home in the US and
abroad. As Ferrando the Finnish
tenor Topi Lehtipuu will perform. He
gained world-wide recognition for
his interpretation of the major
Mozart roles. Performing the role of
Guglielmo is the Austrian Baritone
Florian Boesch, who in 2003 made his
operatic debut with Opernhaus Zürich
as Papageno. The French Soprano
Patricia Petibon is appearing as
Despina. |
