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Così fan Tutte review " Mozart's frothy opera turns nasty by Kate Molleson

Festival theatre, EdinburghTransplanted to 1930s Eritrea, Christopher Honoré's version skims off the froth and stirs in the darker themes of power play, violence and abuseIt's the dregs of a war. Guglielmo and Ferrando are Italian fascist soldiers stationed in Asmara, bored and unsupervised, and their pent-up machismo turns sexually abusive. Dorabella and Fiordiligi are colonial daughters whose relationship to local…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:04am on August 26, 2016

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