Cosi Fan Tutte - Mozart
2023
New Zealand Opera
- CONDUCTOR
- Natalie Murray Beale
- DIRECTOR
- Lindy Hume
- SET AND COSTUME DESIGN
- Tracy Grant Lord
- LIGHTING DESIGN
- Matt Marshall
- PRINCIPAL ARTISTS
- including: Emma Pearson, Hanna Hipp, Jonathon Abernethy, Julien Van Mellaerts, Georgia Jamieson Emms, Andrew Foster Williams
- IMAGES
- Jinki Cambronero
“Hume’s direction is refreshingly uncomplicated, focusing on the emotional journeys of the principal characters, as they become more and more psychologically lost and untethered from one another through a series of estranging interactions.”
Bachtrack
“This marvellously directed production by Lindy Hume …a deeply satisfying production in every respect”
Stuff
“A thought-provoking Cosi fan tutte from NZ Opera”
Middle C
“Directorial insight and superbly balanced singing delivered with confidence and relish”
Theatreview
"Director Lindy Hume brings into sharp focus the more disturbing aspects of Puccini’s opera. … not simply the sexist mores where Cio-Cio-San is a commodity, but the supremacist, imperialist and colonialist attitudes in the characters embodying male entitlement and coercion…Hume’s approach makes for a more disturbing experience than the romantic pull-at-the-heartstrings this work is assumed to be."
The Guardian
"WNO’s intelligent, insightful and, finally, piercingly emotional modern-day interpretation of this squalid story of exploitation and callousness. Tiny details take on epoch-defining significance. As The Star-Spangled Banner sounds in the orchestra, Pinkerton flourishes a credit card to pay for Butterfly."
The Times
"Hume isn’t afraid to press the emotional buttons either. Snipe all you like at Puccini’s ‘manipulative’ score but plenty of handkerchiefs will surely have had a workout when Sorrow added his toy dinosaur to Butterfly’s flower arrangement. No spoilers, but the final minutes were as swift, inexorable and brutal as anything on stage or screen. This might not be the Butterfly you expect, but it hits you where it hurts."
Spectator
"Director Lindy Hume brings into sharp focus the more disturbing aspects of Puccini’s opera. … not simply the sexist mores where Cio-Cio-San is a commodity, but the supremacist, imperialist and colonialist attitudes in the characters embodying male entitlement and coercion…Hume’s approach makes for a more disturbing experience than the romantic pull-at-the-heartstrings this work is assumed to be."
The Guardian
"WNO’s intelligent, insightful and, finally, piercingly emotional modern-day interpretation of this squalid story of exploitation and callousness. Tiny details take on epoch-defining significance. As The Star-Spangled Banner sounds in the orchestra, Pinkerton flourishes a credit card to pay for Butterfly."
The Times
"Hume isn’t afraid to press the emotional buttons either. Snipe all you like at Puccini’s ‘manipulative’ score but plenty of handkerchiefs will surely have had a workout when Sorrow added his toy dinosaur to Butterfly’s flower arrangement. No spoilers, but the final minutes were as swift, inexorable and brutal as anything on stage or screen. This might not be the Butterfly you expect, but it hits you where it hurts."
Spectator
Culture, music, storytelling, dance and image-making have been practiced on Country for millennia by Australia's First People. I acknowledge and pay respect to the original custodians of Culture and Country where I live in Tathra, the Djiringanj people of the Yuin Nation on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, and the palawa/pakana, First People of lutruwita Tasmania.
© 2023 Lindy Hume
© 2022 Lindy Hume
© 2022 Lindy Hume