Anett Fritsch

알마비바 백작의 하인으로 일하고 있는 피가로는 백작부인의 시녀, 수잔나와의 결혼을 앞두고 있다. 희대의 바람둥이이자 호색한인 백작은 아름다운 부인, 로지나를 버려두고 수잔나에게 눈독을 들인다. 이를 알아챈 피가로는 수잔나, 백작부인, 케루비노를 끌어들여 백작을 골탕먹일 계획을 짠다. 수잔나인 척하며 밀회장소에 등장한 백작부인에게 백작은 영원한 사랑을 약속하며 구슬린다. 모든 사실이 밝혀지자 백작은 무릎 꿇고 진심으로 사죄하고 백작부인은 죄를 용서하며 축제를 계속한다.

Director Sven-Eric Bechtolf pulls off a brilliant coup with the high aesthetics of his intrigue, a masterful parody of the "everything is possible" of our time - flanked by an ensemble of exquisite vocal talents.

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fidelity and betrayal? Or have the confusions to which the main characters subject one another ensured that in spite of the heartfelt love duets and superficially fleetfooted comedy nothing will work any longer and that a sense of emotional erosion has replaced true feelings? Così fan tutte is a timeless work full of questions that affect us all. The Academy Award-winning director Michael Haneke once said that he was merely being precise and did not want to distort reality. In only his second opera production after Don Giovanni in 2006, he presents what ARTE described as a “disillusioned vision of love in an ice-cold, realistic interpretation”.

Rinaldo (HWV 7) is an opera by George Frideric Handel composed in 1711. It is the first Italian language opera written specifically for the London stage. The libretto was prepared by Giacomo Rossi from a scenario provided by Aaron Hill. The work was first performed at the Queen's Theatre in London's Haymarket on 24 February 1711. The story of love, battle and redemption set at the time of the First Crusade is loosely based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), and its staging involved many original and vivid effects. It was a great success with the public, despite negative reactions from literary critics hostile to the trend towards Italian entertainment in English theatres.