Così fan tutte — HDVDARTS

Mozart Così fan tutte opera to libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Directed 2016 by Jan Philipp Gloger at the Royal Opera House. Stars Corinne Winters (Fiordiligi), Angela Brower (Dorabella), Daniel Behle (Ferrando), Alessio Arduini (Guglielmo), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Alfonso), and Sabina Puértolas (Despina). Semyon Bychkov conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House (Concert Master Peter Manning) and the Royal Opera Chorus (Chorus Director William Spaulding). Set design by Ben Baur; costume design by Karin Jud; lighting by Bernd Purkrabek; dramaturgy by Katharina John. Directed for TV by Rhodri Huw. Sung in Italian. Released 2018, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.