Covid fan tutte

The inception of Covid fan tutte came about when the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of Finnish National Opera's planned production of Die Walküre. The idea was conceived by conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and soprano Karita Mattila, Finnish natives who both reside in the U.S. but flew to Finland when international borders began closing due to the pandemic, and then found themselves virtually unable to return to the U.S. Journalist and novelist Minna Lindgren was commissioned in mid May 2020 and given a little over a month to create a libretto, which she wrote to selected music from Mozart's Così fan tutte and an aria each from Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. Recitatives were eliminated, and Salonen composed additional musical snippets such as interludes and keyboard parts. The completed opera premiered in Helsinki on 28 August 2020, directed by Jussi Nikkilä and conducted by Salonen, with a total of 12 performances through 23 October 2020, subtitled in English, Finnish, and Swedish. Mattila is a featured performer in the production, playing a parody of herself as an internationally renowned opera diva trapped in Finland because of the pandemic, and also singing the role of Despina. On 6 October 2020, Finnish National Opera posted a film of the 1 September 2020 performance of the opera online, free to stream worldwide through 30 March 2021, with available subtitles in English and Finnish. On 16 October 2020 OperaVision also posted the entire opera on YouTube, with Eng…

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