Box of tricks: an inventive Così in Würzburg

By Matthew Rye, 08 October 2017

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“despite the cartoon-like environs, the characters emerge as real people”

Reviewed at Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, Würzburg on 7 October 2017

Mozart, Così fan tutte

Mainfranken Theater Würzburg

Enrico Calesso, Conductor

Martina Veh, Director

Momme Hinrichs, Set Designer

Torge Møller, Costume Designer

Silke Evers, Fiordiligi

Marzia Marzo, Dorabella

Roberto Ortiz, Ferrando

Daniel Fiolka, Guglielmo

Taiyu Uchiyama, Don Alfonso

Akiho Tsujii, Despina

Philharmonisches Orchester Würzburg

Opernchor des Mainfranken Theaters

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).