A Delightfully Vaudeville Update Of Cosi Fan Tutte — londonist.com

ENO Cosi fan Tutte: Kate Valentine, Randall Bills, Marcus Farnsworth, Christine Rice and Sally Reeve. Image: ENO/Mike Hoban English National Opera has been taking some creative risks with its productions lately. In recent months we’ve seen a gorgeous and thrillingly physical Magic Flute directed by Complicite’s Simon McBurney; a revival of the company’s ambitious 2007 staging of Satyagraha in collaboration with theatre magicians Improbable; and now this new production of one of Mozart’s best-loved operas, again in collaboration with Improbable. It’s as full of ravishing tunes, visual spectacle and buoyant humour as a comic opera about two men who cruelly test the fidelity of their lady-loves can be.

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