However, their friend Don Alfonso bets otherwise, devising a plan to test the women's fidelity. The plot of what is regarded by many as the composer's greatest opera centres on Guglielmo and Ferrando, two army officers who claim to their colleagues that their wives will always be faithful to them.

Mozart's Cosi fan tutte: Riccardo Muti conducts soprano Barbara Frittoli, mezzo Angelika Kirchschlager and bass Ildebrando D'Arcangelo in a performance of Mozart's comic opera, given in February at the Vienna State Opera - in the same city where the work was first performed in 1790. Date: Saturday 1st November 2008 (starting this evening). Susan Bickley, mezzo (Leokadja Begbick), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, tenor (Fatty), Alan Opie, baritone, (Trinity Moses), Giselle Allen, soprano (Jenny), Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor (Jimmy Mahoney), Peter Hoare, tenor (Jack Smith, Toby Higgins), Stephan Loges, baritone (Bill), Brindley Sherratt, bass (Joe), Hannah Gordon (narrator), Ladies of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Christopher Bell (chorus master), Royal Scottish National Orchestra/HK Gruber.Īs before, these broadcasts are streamed from the Radio 3 website and some may be available for seven days after broadcast. Introduced by Donald Macleod, who also talks to the conductor about the context of the work and Weill and Brecht's influence on subsequent operatic developments.

Prostitution and cheap alcohol attract many prospectors, but when Jimmy the barman declarates that all restraints are to be removed, there can only be tragic consequences. The opera's story centres on three fugitives' setting up of a city in an American desert devoted solely to pleasure and debauchery. HK Gruber conducts soprano Susan Bickley and the Royal National Scottish Orchestra in a performance of Weill and Brecht's anti-capitalist satire, given in August at the Usher Hall in the opening concert of this year's Edinburgh International Festival.

Kurt Weill and Berthold Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Date: Saturday 20th September 2008 (starting this evening).

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