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. 

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

***Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart) Screening across the UK and Ireland in November and December***
This new production of Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte performed at the Salzburg Festival 2009 was the concluding part of the German director Claus Guth’s Mozart/Da Ponte cycle which started with Le Nozze di Figaro in 2006 and was followed by Don Giovani in 2008.
Torn between love and passion, security and self-abnegation, fidelity and betrayal, Miah Persson as Fiordiligi, Isabel Leonard as Dorabella, Topi Lehtipun as Ferrando and Florian Boesch as Gugielmo abandon themselves to the emotional chaos.
Bo Skovhus as Don Alfonso and Patricia Petibon as Despina pull the strings in this dangerous game. Adam Fischer conducts the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra

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London
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