Così fan tutte

Barrie Kosky's production of Così fan tutte transports the audience to the theater within the theater, where Don Alfonso and his four young actors stage a love experiment. The four are talented: by the second act at the latest, it is no longer possible to tell what is real and what is acted, what is staged and what is escalated. Barrie Kosky: "I asked myself: what would be a setting in which you can play with what is real emotion and what is acted emotion; what does taking on a role, a costume or an attitude to love mean? In what kind of space can you start and stop the emotion on command, enter it, exit it and even comment on it? What kind of world would that be? At some point I realized: it's the rehearsal room."