Nicole Cabell & Ferrucio Furlanetto Lead San Francisco Opera’s ‘Così fan tutte’

By Francisco Salazar

San Francisco Opera continues its season with Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” in a new production by Michael Cavanagh.

The new production is part two of the Company’s Mozart-Da Ponte Trilogy which sets the opera’s amorous deceptions and confusions in a 1930s American country club.

The production is set to be conducted by Henrik Nánásiand will star sopranos, Nicole Cabell and Nicole Heaston, mezzo-soprano Irene Roberts, tenor Ben Bliss in his Company debut, baritone John Brancy and bass Ferruccio Furlanetto.

The new production is part of Cavanagh’s Mozart-Da Ponte Trilogy which sets the three masterpieces produced by the partnership of Mozart and Italian poet Lorenzo Da Ponte within an American house over three eras. The multi-season project launched in 2019 with “Le Nozze di Figaro” set in colonial times when the manor house is newly completed.

“Così fan tutte takes” place in the 1930s and the house, now at its zenith, has been converted into a playground for the rich and “Don Giovanni,’ which completes the trilogy” will be set in a distant future where the house is in ruins and its inhabitants navigate an uncertain world.

“Così fan tutte” is set to open Nov. 21 and run through Dec. 3, 2021. Virtual tickets will be available for the first three performances, which will be live streamed.

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