>> The director of the Teatre Principal d’Inca, Miquel Àngel Raió, started working this morning with the teaching staff and students.
>>The collaboration with the Teatre Principal d’Inca places students of the Degree in Design and the CFGM in Clothing and Fashion at ADEMA Campus Inca in a real professional context and reinforces the educational methodology based on projects applied to the performing arts
Students from the Bachelor’s Degree in Artistic Design and the Intermediate Vocational Training Program in Fashion at the ADEMA Inca Campus will design and create the costumes and develop the set design for the opera “Così fan tutte” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, which will be performed at the Teatre Principal d’Inca on May 9 and 10. The production is part of the 2025-2026 season of the Mallorca Chamber Orchestra and will be presented in a fully staged version.
During a meeting held this morning at the ADEMA Inca Campus, between the director of the Teatre Principal d’Inca, Miquel Angel Raió, and the teaching staff and students, the details of this project were explained.
The director of the ADEMA Inca Campus, Guillem Aloy, explained that the students’ participation in the production of “Così fan tutte” is structured as an applied learning experience in a real professional context. The project is part of an ongoing collaboration between the two institutions, aimed at linking higher artistic training with contemporary processes of stage creation.
In this case, the students join a lyrical production of universal repertoire, participating in key areas of the visual construction of the show.
According to Guillem Aloy, director of the ADEMA Inca Campus, “this collaboration reflects a pedagogical approach based on project-based learning. For ADEMA, it is essential that students can collaborate and work in authentic professional contexts, where design is not a theoretical exercise but a concrete response to artistic, technical, and functional needs. Participating in an opera production allows students to understand design as a collective process, shaped by use, time, and its interaction with other artistic languages.”
Aloy also emphasized that opera offers a particularly suitable framework for these types of methodologies. “Opera is, by definition, an interdisciplinary workspace. Costume, set design, music, movement, and dramaturgy are all part of the same structure. For students, confronting this complexity represents a profound learning experience, very different from isolated classroom work, and prepares them for rigorous professional practice,” she explained.
“Così fan tutte,” with music by Mozart and Da Ponte, is one of the most complex operas of the late Viennese Classical period. Although traditionally classified as opera buffa, the work presents an ironic and ambiguous reflection on fidelity, desire, and the fragility of romantic convictions.
Through an emotional experiment that tests its protagonists, the opera questions the stability of affections and reveals the psychological mechanisms that permeate human relationships.
In this context, costumes and set design play a central role in constructing the stage narrative. Formal and material choices contribute to articulating the visual dramaturgy of the production, engaging with the psychology of the characters, the narrative evolution, and the conceptual approach of the stage direction. Costumes act as a narrative element that suggests identities, transformations, and internal tensions, beyond their functional or aesthetic purpose.
From the Teatre Principal d’Inca, its director, Miquel Àngel Raió, highlighted the value of this collaboration as part of the venue’s cultural and educational project. “The Teatre Principal is not only a performance space, but also a place of production and learning. Incorporating students from Higher Artistic Education and Vocational Training programs into a production of this nature allows the theater to embrace new processes and forge strong ties with the local community and educational institutions,” he stated.
Raió also pointed out that student participation adds an extra dimension to the production. “The fact that the costumes and part of the set design come from an educational process enriches the artistic level. It’s a very serious commitment to the project, which fits perfectly with the work of the theater and the Mallorca Chamber Orchestra,” she stated.
Students at the ADEMA Inca Campus work with learning methodologies based on real projects, participating in the entire creative process, from the idea and interpretation of the production to the creation of the costumes and set design, continuously adapting to the needs of the scene and the technical requirements of the theater.
In an operatic production, the design demands responding to very specific conditions: the costumes must facilitate movement and vocalization, work with the lighting, be resistant and visible from the entire hall, while the scenery must guarantee safety and stability, be functional, be assembled quickly and integrate coherently into the dramatic space.
The opera is part of a season that reinforces the commitment of the Teatre Principal d’Inca and the Orquestra de Cambra de Mallorca to in-house productions and staged opera. “Così fan tutte” is scheduled for May 9 and 10, 2026, with musical direction by Bernat Quetglas and stage direction by Miquel Àngel Raió, and forms part of a series that positions Inca as one of the leading cultural centers in the Balearic Islands.