theatre · Screenings
RB&O Così Fan Tutte (12 TBC) 210 mins
At Electric Palace Bridport, Bridport · 1 performance from Tue 23 Feb to Tue 23 Feb.
1 interval. Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Spurred on by a bet, two young men hatch a plan to test the fidelity of their girlfriends. What follows is a slippery game of seduction and power, the four lovers plunging into a dizzying world of shifting reality, where truth becomes increasingly unstable. Così fan tutte has lost none of its sting since it first scandalised audiences in 1790. In her Main Stage debut, Netia Jones, Associate Director of The Royal Opera, reimagines Mozart’s comedy of manners through a sharp contemporary lens, where 18th-century romantic trickery meets deeply sa