The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Mozart's Cosi fan tutte

Download or read book The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Mozart's Cosi fan tutte written by Lorenzo Da Ponte and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (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.