Reviews for Cosi Fan Tutte

Cosi fan tutte is an ideal opera to produce on a budget. It doesn’t need a big cast (six singers) and it is a light fluffy opera with glorious music by Mozart that is sufficiently well known to sell well. It is the opera the newly formed “Gauteng Opera” chose to launch their performance history on 2 March 2026 at The State Theatre in Pretoria.

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Dit is verblydend dat daar nou weer in Pretoria, in Gauteng, ‘n geselskap gestig is wat opera na behore op die planke kan bring.

Gauteng Opera, ‘n uitvloeisel van die oorspronklike Black Ties Ensemble (BTE) en toe die klankversterkte “cross over” BTE Vo1SS, se eerste vol produksie – Mozart se Così fan tutte – vestig ‘n grondslag waarop met vertroue voortgebou kan word.

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Gauteng Opera, like all opera companies, know they are up against it when it comes to attracting audiences. Their response, in this new production of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, is as clever as it is classy.

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The newly established Gauteng Opera’s debut full-scale opera production, Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte, was an excellent choice. The last professional staging of it in our region was in 1999. The music itself is glorious. This is most definitely, notwithstanding that this is pure opera buffa (comic opera), Mozart’s most hedonistically inclined work in this genre.

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