Così fan tutte Salzburger Festspiele 2020

As Christof Loy put it Così fan tutte invites us to embrace the complexity of life and face the future with heads held high In his staging of the version he abridged with Joana Mallwitz for the Salzburg Festival 2020 the focus is wholly on the figures and the subtle choreography of their emotional states in a space that like a magnifying glass exposes the intricate mechanisms between the characters In this way the production leads the protagonists and the audience to experience the serene calm that can perhaps indeed cure our own distempers