Mozart’s comic opera – Così fan Tutte – a complex love story about the alleged fickleness of women has gotten a modern make-over in a recent production in Berlin called “Così fan Tutte: Sex, Lies & TV”. Christoph Hagel, the director, has Mozart‘s turbulent comedy take place inside a former night club in Berlin, and the opera gets modern television type of treatment.
Mr. Hagel uses elements of reality television and daytime talk shows and melts them into Mozart’s elegant score and turns the often puckish and teasing libretto into scenes from our present consumer and youth-culture society.
While it may not exactly fit the standard form in which Mozart is presented, knowing what we know about his dynamic and humorous personality I am sure Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would approve.
For Mozart purists, the music is still there – gorgeous, eternally graceful and as all of Mozart uplifting.
Mr. Hagel is well-known in the Berlin music scene for other musical spectacular productions and staged another Mozart opera “Don Giovanni” in 1997 and April/May 2008 performances of “The Magic Flute” in a new sub-way station created a bit of a scandal.
“Così fan Tutte: Sex, Lies & TV” runs nightly through January 3rd at E-Werk Zimmerstrasse 92/94 .
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