It is a spectacle abounding in intelligence, at the risk of trapping himself, that director David Herrmann offers at the Opéra national du Rhin.
We have known for a long time that
Cosi fan tutte
is not just a light comedy.
Hermann powerfully exploits its tragic potential by questioning what this story tells us of couples confronted with the cruelty of emotional life.
He does this by emphasizing two traditionally neglected springs of this well-known plot: time and war.
The human evolution of the two couples is traditionally presented in a unit of time, which harms its plausibility.
Hermann extends the action over thirty-seven years, from 1913 to 1950. An adult life.
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