Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish

"Così fan tutte", or "La scuola degli amanti", is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo da Ponte, premiered on January 26, 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna. It marks the third and last collaboration between Mozart and Da Ponte, after The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni.

The short title, Così fan tutte, literally means "So do they all", using the feminine plural (tutte) to indicate women. It is usually translated into English as "Women are like that". The words are sung by the three men in act 2, scene 3, just before the finale; this melodic phrase is also quoted in the overture to the opera. Da Ponte had used the line "Così fan tutte le belle" earlier in Le nozze di Figaro.

The storyline of the opera turns on a conceit: two young men, disguised as Albanian princes, wager on whether each can seduce the other’s fiancée. The result gives the opera a title suggestive of both fickleness and betrayal. Both Beethoven and Wagner considered the story of the young men’s scheme to be frivolous and beneath Mozart’s talent, but the judgment of later generations of performers and listeners has been much kinder, and the opera has been widely staged ever after, although Mozart himself was able to perform it a handful of times before his patron, Emperor Joseph II, died and the production was suspended. Although Mozart, desperate for money, wrote the opera quickly, the music displays restraint and balance that are characteristic of Mozart’s late style, and brings forth unexpected psychological complexity and depth of feeling from a stock comedy plot.

Director: Jean Liermier (Director)
Cast: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Lausanne Opera Choir, Joshua Weilerstein (Music Director), Fiordiligi (Valentina Nafornita), Dorabella (Stéphanie Guérin), Guglielmo (Robert Gleadow), Ferrando (Joel Prieto), Despina (Susana Cordón), Don Alfonso (Bruno de Simone)