Dating nightmares make for cynical comedy in Minnesota Opera’s production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.” Under Doug Scholz-Carlson’s direction, the ending is put in the hands of the audience, who vote on how the ridiculous plot resolves.

“Così fan tutte” was Mozart’s third collaboration with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, after “The Marriage of Figaro,” and “Don Giovanni.” Some themes from those earlier works reappear in the new collaboration — questions of infidelity and amorality, for example. In “Così fan tutte,” Da Ponte satirizes notions of romance and leans into the trope that women are inherently fickle.

Scholz-Carlson’s staging pushes against the deep misogyny of Da Ponte’s libretto by accentuating the buffoonery of the two male romantic leads.

Ángel Vargas as Ferr

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