Mozart - Così fan tutte - Gruberova, Ziegler, Stratas - Harnoncourt, Ponnelle - 2006Edita Gruberova · Delores Ziegler · Teresa Stratas · Luis Lima · Ferruccio Furlanetto · Paolo Montarsolo · Wiener Philharmoniker · Nikolaus Harnoncourt · Staged and Directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
The best known in a fine cast are Edita Gruberova as Fiordiligi, Teres Stratas as Despina and Ferruccio Furlanetto as Guglielmo, but Delores Ziegler, Luis Lima and Paolo Montarsolo are also impressive. The production, made at a Palladian villa, is easy on the eye, and this is certainly very good, unproblematic "Così". Record Review
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle specialized in filming opera: lip synching the singing while recording recitatives live. He intended to film all of Mozart's operas but passed away (in August 1988), scant weeks after the completion of this film. He filmed only 4 Mozart operas: le Nozze di Figaro, la Clemenza di Tito, Mitridate and Cosi. It is a pity we will never see his Don Giovanni or Magic Flute. Ponnelle brought keen insight and subtle beauty to his filmed operas: never more evident than here, in his vision of a contest of mistaken identity and love held in a beautiful seaside Palladian villa.
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