Cosi Fan Tutte

Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Libretto Lorenzo Da Ponte. Directed by Jean-Yves Ruf. Musical direction Julien Chauvin. With the Concert de la Loge. 8:15pm, 3:00pm Sunday. Estimated duration 3 hours with intermission. In Italian, subtitled in French from age 11.

Scenography Laure Pichat. Costumes Claudia Jenatsch. Artistic collaboration Julien Girarde. Fiordiligi Elizaveta Shuvalova, soprano. Dorabella Sofia Anisimova, mezzo-soprano. Despina Fantine Douilly, soprano. Ferrando Abel Zamora, tenor. Guglielmo Pierre Gennaï, baritone.

Don Alfonso Max Latarjet, bass. Following the success of Don Giovanni, the Athénée welcomes the continuation of the trilogy that Da Ponte wrote for Mozart with Così fan tutte, in a production by Jean-Yves Ruf.

On stage, the 32 musicians of the Concert de la Loge conducted by Julien Chauvin blend with six young lyrical voices spotted by Arcal. Between laughter and sarcasm, this opera questions the constancy of feelings, temptation and the play of appearances.

The story is simple, the challenge vertiginous. Two young officers, Ferrando and Guglielmo, confident of their fiancées' faithfulness, accept a cynical wager: to put their love to the test.

Disguised and guided by the irony of Don Alfonso and the mischief of Despina, they will each attempt to seduce the other's betrothed. Under the mask of play and disguise, certainties waver.

Faithfulness, desire and illusion intertwine in a laboratory of feelings, a tender and cruel mirror of our own contradictions.