Soloists: Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Luca Pisaroni, Lenneke Ruitens, Anett Fritsch, Andrew Staples, Tomasz Konieczny, Valentina Nafornita, Alessio Arduini
Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach
Director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf
DVD (June 30, 2015)
Number of discs: 1
Label: EuroArts
ASIN: B00WCCYCZS
Luca Pisaroni, with his finely balanced voice, is an intellectually bespectacled Leporello.
The highlight of the Baden-Baden Festival in 2013 was unquestionably the celebrated new production of Mozart's famous opera "Don Giovanni" directed by Philipp Himmelmann and an absolute dream cast.
Thus do all – women! For the literal translation of Così fan tutte is not “Thus do all people”, since “tutte” signifies the feminine plural. Don Alfonso’s misogynous dictum still seems almost provocatively malicious. Even though during the course of the action the men are exposed as no less fickle than the women, the title continues to work its subtle poison in us.
