the cool Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte created three celebrated operas ‘Così fan tutte’ (1790), ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ (1786) and ‘Don Giovanni’ (1787). Starting this Thursday and for the first time, the Liceu offers them in a different way: consecutively -not in this order- one per day and unified under the same scenic and musical conceptwith some of the same singers with Marc Minkowski in front of the Liceu Symphony and put in Ivan Alexander scene.
The stories are related: they speak of love and desire. Why does Mozart quote Figaro in ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Così’? Mozart created musical ties between these three operas and also between the characters”, highlights Alexandre who connects the Cherubino with Don Giovanni and from him with Don Alfonso.
“All three say exactly the same about women. We can see the history of the libertine of the eighteenth century through them starting with Querubino, the young man who loves them all, later turned into Don Giovanni who would be Don Alfonso when he was old.” His version starts with ‘Le nozze’, goes through Don Giovanni and ends with ‘Così’. “It’s as if she had worked with Mozart’s Ring.”
For Mincowski this marathon is a challenge. “The three operas are models in terms of romantic perfection, especially ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ where everything is so true, natural and human,” he says, ready for the challenge at the Liceu. A team of young voices They will take care of the trilogy. Several of them intervene in more than one title. Alexandre Duhamel, for example, takes on the roles of Don Giovanni and Don Alfonso.