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Reinhard J Brembeck
Then there is climbing. Director Benedict Andrews – his grandiose film “Seberg” made him famous three years ago – has a bare concrete garage with a filthy mattress and an SUV put up for it. The two young women in love then climb around like virtuosos while their lovers imitate them awkwardly. This is how upper-class romantic comedy works today. Music and text, however, come from the successful duo Wolfgang A. Mozart & Lorenzo Da Ponte. Her “Così fan tutte” is 232 years old and an intellectually cynical love school full of sophisticated psychology and misogynist sayings, which are presented in all their dubiousness in the new production at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.