The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Mozart's Cosi fan tutte
Title | The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Mozart's Cosi fan tutte PDF eBook |
Author | Lorenzo Da Ponte |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1574674587 |
(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
Title | Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte PDF eBook |
Author | Lorenzo Da Ponte |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781574674453 |
(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
Title | Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte PDF eBook |
Author | Burton D. Fisher |
Publisher | Opera Journeys Publishing |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0977145530 |
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.
Mozart's Così Fan Tutte
Title | Mozart's Così Fan Tutte PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Woodfield |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1843834065 |
A groundbreaking new approach proposes answers to many of the opera's unresolved questions.
Mozart's Così Fan Tutte
Title | Mozart's Così Fan Tutte PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Steen |
Publisher | Icon Books Ltd |
Total Pages | 47 |
Release | 2012-05-25 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1848314663 |
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.
W. A. Mozart: Così Fan Tutte
Title | W. A. Mozart: Così Fan Tutte PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Alan Brown |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 1995-11-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521437356 |
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.
Cosi Fan Tutte
Title | Cosi Fan Tutte PDF eBook |
Author | Burton, Fisher D. Publishing Staff |
Publisher | Opera Journeys Publishing |
Total Pages | 39 |
Release | 2000-04 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1930841019 |
A comprehensive guide featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, a complete newly translated Libretto with foreign language and english side-by-side, an in depth Commentary and Analysis, selected Discogaphy and Videography, and a Dictionary of Opera and Musical Terms.