Così fan tutte – Act I trio ‘Soave sia il vento’ (Mozart; Winters, Brower, Kränzle, The Royal Opera)

Corinne Winters as Fiordiligi, Angela Brower as Dorabella and Johannes Martin Kränzle as Don Alfonso sing the Act I trio ‘Soave sia il vento’ in Jan Philipp Gloger’s production of Così fan tutte. Find out more Così fan tutte contains some of Mozart’s most beautiful arias and attractive ensembles, and is packed with both pathos and humour. German director Jan Philipp Gloger is inspired by Così’s alternative title, ’the school for lovers’, to set his production in a theatre, with Don Alfonso as an impresario who leads the four lovers on a role-playing journey full of picturesque settings. By the end, everyone has, in Gloger’s words, learnt that ’love is not a God-given thing, but something that we have to fight for, find, define, create and dream newly, almost every day’. Così fan tutte was Mozart’s final collaboration with the Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, wh