The Mozartian Realism. Così fan tutte – notes from the director’s handbook
The Mozartian Realism. Così fan tutte – notes from the director’s handbook

Summary/Abstract: Così fan tutte, a work of extraordinary complexity and beauty, which was long considered "misunderstood", continues to be the subject of many controversies today. The article starts from Bernard Paumgartner's statement that Così is "an opera of the future whose hour will come" and proposes some avenues for reflection on the themes, as well as on the literary references that the libretto of the opera Così contains, the novelty of the genre to which it belongs, as well as the nature of the characters, which differ substantially from those of other seria or buffa operas of the 18th century. Also evoked is the Mozartian conception of the spectacle performance and the stage play of the singers, as evidenced from some letters that Wolfgang wrote to his father, Leopold, a conception which reveals the modernity of the Austrian composer's dramaturgical and theatrical thinking.

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