Love And Laughter

Flirtation and fidelity are the order of the day in Mozart's sublime opera buffa Cosi Fan Tutte! A romantic comedy of the highest order, Madison Opera stages the brilliantly playful work with direction by Haley Stamats. The exquisite music is conducted by Emily Senturia, with Sarah Tucker and Sun-Ly Pierce playing the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella respectively in the first Madison Opera performance of this classic for 17 years!

What is the story?

Two Sisters, Fiordiligi and Dorabella are persistently wooed by a pair of foreigners while their soldier fiances are away at war, but this is just a test of fidelity set up by the philosophizing master of ceremonies, Don Alfonso who gains a collaborator in Despina the maid. Alas, the foreigners are in fact their betrothed in disguise! Guglielmo and Ferrando set out to seduce the other's partner in order to win the wager set before them by Alfonso. Over the course of the deception, the young couple's definition of love and certainty is thrown off-kilter, with their feelings revealed to us through Mozart's masterful score.