Fiordiligi: ANN CHRISTINE BIEL
Dorabella: MARIA HÖGLIND
Ferrando: LARS TIBELL
Guglielmo: MAGNUS LINDEN
Despina: ULLA SEVERIN
Alfonso: ENZO FLORIMO

This comic opera buffa in two acts was commissioned to Mozart by Emperor Josef II subtitled The School for Lovers. In eighteenth-century Naples, the cynical Don Alfonso discusses women with two young officers, Ferrando and Guglielmo. The gallants insist their sweet-hearts Fiordiligi and Dorabella are virtue itself, and accept Alfonso's wager that he can prove the ladies fickle if they follow his instructions for twenty-four hours.

Kultur is proud to present Mozart from the intimate setting of Sweden's Drottningholm Court Theatre, dating back to 1766, providing a perfect stage for these operas and featuring excellent casts and superb directors, accompanied by period instruments for a truly authentic experience.

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'Excellent standard... notable for the clarity of the period-instrument sound and for a production wholly appropriate to the tiny Drottningholm space.' Gramophone

Chorus and Orchestra of the Drottningholm Court Theatre
Conducted by ARNOLD ÖSTMAN
Stage Direction by WILLY DECKER
Design by TOBIAS HOHEISEL
Choreography by REGINA BECK-FRIIS
Directed and Produced for TV by THOMAS OLOFSSON