Così fan tutte | W. A. Mozart

When the libretto is by Lorenzo da Ponte, and when Mozart composes the music for a third collaboration after Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, this recipe produces an astonishing masterpiece. Surprising, because while all the ingredients of a misogynistic fable seem to be present here, Mozart's score is something else entirely: a brilliantly ironic comedy on the inevitable impermanence of the most sincere feelings, on the necessary humility of each person in the face of the imperfection of all and of oneself. About the bittersweet mixture of sensitivity and sensuality that constitutes the basis of all existence. On the melancholy ballet between life as we live it and the life we could have lived - and on the wisdom that we should draw from it.