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Welsh National Opera summer season tour 2011. Opened 20th May 2011. Performances in Cardiff and Birmingham. The production also toured the UK from October 3rd 2012 to the end of November 2012. The production transposes the setting of the opera from Naples to a British seaside pier-town in the 1960’s.

“Truth be told, Benjamin Davis’ production is probably the most entertaining Così fan tutte you’re ever likely to see.” Buzz Magazine (2011)

“In the pit Mark Wigglesworth conducts a delightfully crisp, elegant account of the music, clearly influenced but unencumbered by historical performance practice. It fits Davis's pellucidly intelligent direction perfectly. I left the Millennium Centre elevated by what I had witnessed, believing, momentarily at least, that Così, if not unarguably the greatest of Mozart's operas, is comfortably his most enduringly relevant and thought-provoking.” ***** Opera Britannia (2012)

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