September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Cosi fan Tutte or The School for Lovers is, in this case, not a place but an opera where the audience is the class and composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte are the teachers. The lessons in this curriculum are the stories of two couples, Dorabella and her beloved Ferrando, and Fiordiligi and her fiancé, Guglielmo.
Through a series of slapstick, somber, and ultimately profound scenes that explore the issues of trust and acceptance within relationships, audiences today learn the same lesson those at the opera’s premiere in 1790 took ...
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