Certainly, the production of Cosi fan tutte by Christof Loy has existed since 2008 in Frankfurt, where it won the director the German theater prize. Putting it back together in two months to allow the 2020 edition of the Salzburg Festival to take place, where the usual deadlines are more than two years, nonetheless remains a tour de force.
Especially since it was necessary to intervene on the score to achieve a version of two hours ten without intermission, health imperative obliges: fifty minutes of music less! Without forgetting that a large part of Mozart's genius lies in ... his science of sequences. Even if the scissors get along well here and there, Loy and the conductor Joana Mallwitz have produced a very skilful editing, preserving consistency and depth.
A remarkable direction
Chief, let's talk about it. Already very prominent in Germany, the musical director of the Nuremberg Opera, at 34, made her debut at the Salzburg Festival, where she was the first woman to be entrusted with a
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