At The Opera, Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte, May 27, 2017
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Così fan tutte is an Italian-language opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed on January 26, 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte who also wrote Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni.
Although it is commonly held that Così fan tutte was written and composed at the suggestion of the Emperor Joseph II, recent research does not support this idea. There is evidence that Mozart's contemporary Antonio Salieri tried to set the libretto but left it unfinished.
The title, Così fan tutte, literally means "Thus do all [women]" but is usually translated into English as "Women are like that".
Cast:
Fiordiligi – Renee Fleming
Dorabella – Anne Sofie Von Otter
Ferrando – Frank Lopardo
Gugielmo – Olaf Bar
Sir Georg Solti - conductor
Decca - 1996
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:09 p.m.
Fleming, von Otter, Scarabelli, Lopardo, Bär, Pertusi, Solti
Mozart
Cosi fan tutte
; Sir Georg Solti, conductor
11:19 p.m.
Leontyne Price
La forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio
11:24 p.m.
Leontyne Price
Ride On, King Jesus
11:26 p.m.
Leontyne Price
Giacomo Puccini
Madame Butterfly: Tu, Tu, piccolo iddio
11:29 p.m.
Leontyne Price
Porgy And Bess: Summertime
11:31 p.m.
Leontyne Price
Puccini
TOSCA: Vissi d'arte
11:35 p.m.
Leontyne Price
Cilea
Andriana Lecouvreur: Io son l'umile ancella
11:38 p.m.
Leontyne Price
Puccini
La rondine: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
11:41 p.m.
Leontyne Price
Puccini
Madame Butterfly: Un bel di
11:45 p.m.
Birgit Nillson
Wagner
Mild und leise wie er lächelt (Isolde s Liebestod) Tristan und Isolde
Vienna Philharmonic; Sir Georg Solti, conductor
11:52 p.m.
Luciano Pavarotti
Puccini
Nessun dorma! Turandot
