Così fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop – review

Royal Opera House; Wilton's Music Hall; St Sepulchre-without-Newgate; Royal Festival Hall, LondonBoom-diddy-boom. Opera is always obsessed with the foibles and frailties of the human heart, but no librettist carried a better stethoscope than Lorenzo Da Ponte. He recorded every conceivable palpitation in the three works he wrote with Mozart – cruel jealousy in Le nozze di Figaro, rampant lust in Don Giovanni and sly infidelity in Così fan tutte. The Royal Opera has currently got the hots for a...

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