Who loves whom in Cos├¼ fan tutte, MozartÔÇÖs and Da PonteÔÇÖs cruelly comic reflection on desire, fidelity and betrayal? Or have the confusions to which the main characters subject one another ensured that in spite of the heartfelt love duets and superficially fleetfooted comedy nothing will work any longer and that a sense of emotional erosion has replaced true feelings? Cos├¼ fan tutte is a timeless work full of questions that affect us all. The Academy Award-winning director Michael Haneke once said that he was merely being precise and did not want to distort reality. In only his second opera production after Don Giovanni in 2006, he presents what ARTE described as a ÔÇ£disillusioned vision of love in an ice-cold, realistic interpretationÔÇØ.
