Così fan Tutte – review

Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffThe early perception of Mozart's opera was that it was trivial; Benjamin Davis's new production for Welsh National Opera seems designed to prove it so. Transposed from 18th-century Naples to a 1950s British seaside promenade, the references move through Donald McGill to Gavin & Stacey and Little Britain. But the result is a series of cliches, rather than the witty surrealist sleight of hand one might have expected Davis to have learned from WNO directors such as R...

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