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Getting to the heart of Don Alfonso: Così fan tutte revived for Glyndebourne Tour

By Mark Pullinger, 14 October 2017
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“Rachel Kelly sang a delicious Dorabella, radiating honeyed warmth”
Reviewed at Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne on 13 October 2017
Programme
Mozart, Così fan tutte
Performers
Glyndebourne Autumn
Leo McFall, Conductor
Nicholas Hytner, Director
Vicki Mortimer, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Kirsten MacKinnon, Fiordiligi
Rachel Kelly, Dorabella
Bogdan Volkov, Ferrando
Ilya Kutyukhin, Guglielmo
José Fardilha, Don Alfonso
Ana Quintans, Despina
Glyndebourne Sinfonia
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Bruno Ravella, Revival Director
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.