Cosi Fan Tutte – Classical Music in Oxford

Jacksonville Opera Theatre presents a hilarious farce, revolving around a bet made by three men. Don Alfonso bets Ferrando and Guglielmo that he can prove that their fiancés, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, are unfaithful like all women. Don Alfonso, with the help of Despina, the ladies’ maid, sets up the plot to pretend to send the men away to war, but then disguise them as foreigners to seduce the other man’s girlfriend. After many comical struggles, and absurd tricks, Despina and Alfonso succeed in duping the quartet and putting the two couples into situations where they are forced to decide. Both girls agree to marry the foreigners when it is announced that their old boyfriends have returned home. The men reveal themselves, and the ladies ask for their forgiveness. Alfonso wins the bet and gloats, hoping that they have all learned their lesson.