The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Mozart's Cosi fan tutte
The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Mozart's Cosi fan tutte

Author: Lorenzo Da Ponte

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1574674587

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(Amadeus). For a long time, Cosi fan tutte was considered scandalous which is not entirely surprising, if you look at its story. After seeing their fiances, Guglielmo and Ferrando, go off to war, two sisters, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, all too rapidly overcome their grief and agree to marry two attractive strangers within the space of just a couple days. Little do the sisters know that the strangers are in fact those same fiances in disguise! The whole thing is a plot masterminded by a cynical old philosopher, Don Alfonso, and a clever maid, Despina. Scandalous or not, Cosi fan tutte has remained one of opera's most contemporary comedies.

Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte
Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte

Author: Lorenzo Da Ponte

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781574674453

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(Amadeus). For a long time, Cosi fan tutte was considered scandalous which is not entirely surprising, if you look at its story. After seeing their fiances, Guglielmo and Ferrando, go off to war, two sisters, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, all too rapidly overcome their grief and agree to marry two attractive strangers within the space of just a couple days. Little do the sisters know that the strangers are in fact those same fiances in disguise! The whole thing is a plot masterminded by a cynical old philosopher, Don Alfonso, and a clever maid, Despina. Scandalous or not, Cosi fan tutte has remained one of opera's most contemporary comedies.

Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte
Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte

Author: Burton D. Fisher

Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0977145530

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A comprehensive guide to Mozart's COSI FAN TUTTE, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with Italian/English side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples.

W. A. Mozart: Così Fan Tutte
W. A. Mozart: Così Fan Tutte

Author: Bruce Alan Brown

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-11-24

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780521437356

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At once the most light-hearted and disturbing of Mozart and Da Ponte's Italian comic works, the opera has provoked widely differing reactions from listeners for more than two centuries. This study provides a detailed account of the libretto's complex origins in myth and Italian literary classics.

Mozart's Così Fan Tutte
Mozart's Così Fan Tutte

Author: Michael Steen

Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

Published: 2012-05-25

Total Pages: 47

ISBN-13: 1848314663

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A couple of smooth army officers in metropolitan Naples become increasingly horrified as they find that they are losing their bet with a misogynist philosopher. The wager? That their fiancées will be faithful. Their disguise as Albanians in an attempt to entrap their fiancées, and the complicity of the naughty maid, who feigns as a lawyer organising their ‘marriage’, provide hilarious moments in an opera full of favourite tunes. Lorenzo da Ponte’s libretto was long considered indecent and unsuitable to stage. But today it is regarded as providing one of the greatest illustrations of Mozart’s art of musical characterisation, even if the story is somewhat politically incorrect. The ways in which Mozart’s music contrasts the two ‘provincial’ sisters, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, and presents their capitulation, can justify his reputation as possibly the greatest classical composer of all time. Written by Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, ‘Short Guides to Great Operas’ are concise, entertaining and easy to read books about opera. Each is an opera guide packed with useful information and informed opinion, helping to make you a truly knowledgeable opera-goer, and so maximising your enjoyment of a great musical experience. Other ‘Short Guides to Great Operas’ that you may enjoy include The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni.

Cosi Fan Tutte
Cosi Fan Tutte

Author: Burton D. Fisher

Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 193084106X

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A complete, newly translated libretto featuring foreign/English translation side-by-side, plus music examples.

The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro

Author: Lorenzo Da Ponte

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1574674684

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(Amadeus). Today Mozart's exquisite Le Nozze di Figaro delights and moves audiences everywhere, long after its 1786 birth into tumultuous times. The original Beaumarchais play raised a firestorm in France, then on the brink of revolution, with its dangerous commentary on class relations. However, Lorenzo Da Ponte carefully omitted anything political from his opera libretto; what remained, when joined with Mozart's sublime and penetrating music, was a witty yet profound tale of infatuation, heartache, scheming, and tenderness, where complex emotions are laid bare and everyone, regardless of class, is equally vulnerable to the powers of love. Figaro continues the story of The Barber of Seville several years later, in a single "day of madness." Count Almaviva's love, Rosina, is now his long-suffering countess, and the barber Figaro, now the count's valet, is about to marry Susanna, the countess's maid. But the couple-to-be must first deal with two obstacles: a demand that Figaro pay his debt to an older woman or marry her instead, and the count's determination to bed Susanna on her wedding night. Suspicions fly, plots are hatched, narrow escapes abound, and connivers receive their due. Love and forgiveness finally bring order to the craziness, and a day filled with torment and worry ends in joy.

Cosi fan Tutte in Full Score
Cosi fan Tutte in Full Score

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 048631930X

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Accurate, scholarly edition, first published by C. F. Peters, is reprinted here in complete score. One of Mozart's greatest operas with Da Ponte libretto. Features critical commentary. Preface. Translated frontmatter.