TBA

Release date: 10 September 2010

Running time: 200 mins

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Starring: Pavol Breslik, Stephane Degout, Thomas Allen, Maria Bengtsson, Jurgita Adamonyte, Rebecca Evans

Jonathan Miller directs a compelling version of Mozart's beloved opera.

The new Royal Opera Season begins with a great audience favourite. This great comedy with an edge brings a classic score by Mozart to a witty story of deception and trust tested to its limit. Can two apparently faithful couples have their affections altered by some apparently harmless deception? Jonathan Miller's ever-popular production updates the 18th-century to today - while fashions and technology may have changed since Mozart's time, human behaviour remains as fickle and manipulative as ever. Royal Opera favourite Thomas Allen returns in a strong cast of singers under acclaimed German conductor Thomas Hengelbrock. The title may suggest that it is the way of women to behave this way - 'such is the way they are' - but then it seems to be true of the men too. In this most sophisticated of operas with the most sublime of scores, no-one escapes unscathed.

Screenplay: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

You should see it because: It's one of the three legendary Mozart operas for which Lorenzo Da Ponte supplied the libretto.