Simply put, a work like this presents a problem in a post-feminist age.
How to do you solve a problem like Cosi fan tutte? Well, you could try setting it an East German recording studio.
It’s not the music, which is wonderful. The devil lies within the narrative. The Funkhaus Berlin concept was spearheaded by director/costume designer Laurent Pelly and set designer Chantal Thomas. The idea is to distance us from a storyline that some contemporary audience members may view as misogynistic … even offensive.
“Cosi fan tutte” can be roughly translated as “women are like that.” In other words, when it comes to signoras and amore, scruples go out the window. Of course in 2023 we no longer agree with any such assessment, not even in fun . As the Victoria Symphony plays the overture, the curtain rises on singers warming up in the studio. Headphoned engineers in the control room ready themselves. The backstage clutter includes harp and drum cases. The dress is business casual: the men wear sports coats, the women are in dresses.
And so it is. In Victoria it’s a young cast, mostly Canadian. Some will remember soprano Lucia Cesaroni from past POV performances. A vivacious performer blessed with a lush voice, she again impressed as Fiordiligi. Cesaroni managed to pole-vault her way through the notoriously difficult Come Scoglio with its mind-boggling highs and lows. Nigglers may have found the coloratura a touch laboured, yet overall the effect was enchanting, here and elsewhere.
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