Così fan tutte
Opera and music
Netia Jones reimagines Mozart’s comedy of manners through a sharp contemporary lens, where 18th-century romantic trickery meets deeply satirical high-tech deceit. Louise Alder, Simone McIntosh, Mingjie Lei and Huw Montague Rendall are the four lovers, with Gerald Finley as their manipulative game-master Don Alfonso and Emily Pogorelc as Despina. Thomas Hengelbrock conducts.
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General booking opens on 21 October 2026
Priority booking dates
Dates
Location
Approximate timings
The performance will last about 3 hours 15 minutes, including one interval.
Accessibility
- Audio Described
- Captioned
- BSL Interpreted
- Touch Tour
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Wednesday 10 February, 6:30 pm
Friday 12 February, 7:00 pm
Tuesday 16 February, 7:00 pm
Guidance
More information available soon.
Please note that, as this is a new production, age guidance and content warnings may be subject to change.
Language
Sung in Italian with English surtitles, which are displayed on screens above the stage and around the auditorium.
Generous support from
Exceptional philanthropic support from
Royal Ballet and Opera Principal The Julia Rausing Trust
Generous philanthropic support from
Tim and Sarah Bunting, Huo Family Foundation, Royal Ballet and Opera Young Philanthropists and Royal Ballet and Opera Friends
Synopsis
The story of Così fan tutte
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.
Creatives
The artists and creatives behind the production
Composer
Libretto
Director and co-Costume Designer
Set Designer and co-Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Movement and Intimacy Director
Discover
Così fan tutte has lost none of its sting since it first scandalised audiences in 1790. Boasting beautifully drawn out music, the opera takes its time, its exquisite melodies underpinning the provocative, and resolutely modern, themes at the heart of Mozart’s great work.
Composition history
The music
Così fan tutte was Mozart’s third and final collaboration with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, following Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. Like its predecessors, Così fan tutte exemplifies the heights opera can reach when the skills of composer and librettist are perfectly matched. But its reception has always been more complex than that of the other Mozart/Da Ponte operas, with the opera variously considered immoral, unfinished, cruel or simply odd since its 1790 premiere. Now finally accepted as one of Mozart’s masterpieces, it is celebrated as much for its nuanced depiction of love as for its glorious music – a near continuous roll-call of favourites, including the terzetto ‘Soave sia il vento’ and the arias ‘Come scoglio’, ‘Tradito, schernito’ and ‘Un’aura amorosa’.
Accessibility and resources
There is lift access and there are step-free routes to over 100 seats in the Stalls Circle, Balcony and Amphitheatre. Some seats in the Stalls Circle, Balcony, Amphitheatre and the Donald Gordon Grand Tier are accessed by 9 steps or fewer. There are 10 steps or more to access seats in the Orchestra Stalls.
You can use the assistive listening systems in our auditoriums. Surtitles, captions and translations in English are displayed on screens above the stage and around the auditorium.
Join our Access Scheme for priority access to tickets and to inform us of your access requirements.
See our Accessibility page for more information or view a visitors guide (PDF, 12.0 MB).
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