Cosi fan tutte (Mozart) – Act 1 Scene & Finale

Bored in lockdown, Don Alfonso has been amusing himself by laying a wager with Guglielmo and Ferrando; that he can prove in one day that their fiancées, like all women, are fickle.

We join them in the second scene of the opera: Alfonso has already convinced Fiordiligi and Dorabella that the men will not be coming – they have, sadly, been forced to quarantine for 14 days in a hotel with poor wifi. Now he presents them to Despina, both so artfully disguised that no-one would ever know it was them…

  • Fiordiligi
    Rosie Rowell
  • Dorabella
    Caroline Carragher
  • Despina
    Naomi Kilby
  • Ferrando
    Nicholas Klein
  • Guglielmo
    Malachy Frame
  • Don Alfonso
    Tom Asher

Drinking Songs!

As a fitting finale to #OperaInLockdown, we present a selection of operatic drinking songs taken from Martha (Flowtow), Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni), La Périchole (Offenbach), Die Fledermaus (Strauss) and La Traviata (Verdi).

Soloists

  • Freya Holliman
  • Hannah Ambrose
  • Carolina Caballero
  • Emily Noon
  • Deborah Holborn
  • Alex Akhurst
  • Matthew Secombe
  • Carl Rosenthal
  • Mikhail Smigelski

Chorus

  • Anna Vienna Ho
  • Catherine Bench
  • Carolina Caballero
  • Hebe Hamilton
  • Nicole Boardman
  • Emily Noon
  • Angharad Davies
  • Matthew Secombe
  • Phil Wilcox
  • Dafydd Allen
  • Piano
    Ashley Beauchamp
  • Director
    Richard Jones

First released Friday 16 April 2021, 8pm