Cosi fan tutte

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Book by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Genres: Music

Paperback

First published January 26, 1790

About the author

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, the Austrian composer, toured Europe with his son, child prodigy, noted Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who gracefully and imaginatively refined the classical style with symphonies, concertos, operas, Masses, sonatas, and chambers among his 626 numbered works.

The comic plays of French writer Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais inspired Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to operas.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart prolifically influenced the era. Many persons acknowledged this pinnacle of piano and choral music. His popularity most endures.

Mozart showed earliest ability. From the age of five years in 1761 already competently on keyboard and violin performed before royalty. At seventeen years in 1773, a court musician in Salzburg engaged him, who restlessly traveled always abundantly in search of a better position.

Mozard visited Vienna in 1781; Salzburg dismissed his position, and he chose to stay in the capital and achieved fame but little financial security over the rest of life. The final years in Vienna yielded his many best-known Requiem . People much mythologized the circumstances of his early death. Constanze Mozart, his wife, two sons survived him.

Mozart always learned voraciously and developed a brilliance and maturity that encompassed the light alongside the dark and passionate; a vision of humanity, "redeemed through art, forgiven, and reconciled with nature and the absolute," informed the whole. He profoundly influenced all subsequent western art music. Ludwig van Beethoven wrote on his own early in the shadow of Mozart, of whom Franz Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years."

Reviews

[Javier Fernandez · Rating 4 out of 5]

This opera is totally sexist and blatantly politically incorrect. It wouldn't be so funny though if there wasn't at least a little truth in the chauvinistic libretto.

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Includes background on the opera (and its history at the Met), a synopsis, a full libretto with English translation, photos from multiple productions, and endnotes.

Because this guide seems to be geared toward opera singers (many of the endnotes deal with Italian vocabulary), the libretto is translated word-for-word below the original, then retranslated below in parentheses for those passages where the grammar really doesn’t make sense.

Therefore, this isn’t a first choice if you want a literate, rather than a literal, translation. On the other hand, the endnotes point out all the sexual puns, so there’s that.

[Raúl · Rating 4 out of 5]

La última colaboración de Da Ponte y de Mozart, última faceta de tres obras con una diversidad estupenda. Una historia inspirada en Bocaccio y con un toque perverso que se refuerza por los personajes del libertino Don Alfonso y la maliciosa Despìna, en cuyos tejemanejes la doble pareja sucumbe, marcados con una herida que la comedia apenas disimula.

[Charles]

Radio WHT presents Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte - the Western!
*Frontier Radio Theater, April 3, 2011

[Chinen Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

so like, i read the surtitles throughout the opera so i'll stand by this counting (not like i'm using the annual goal in any sense anymore, yay character development)

but a fun and mostly lighthearted opera (AH: cf macbeth, they're like chalk and cheese) but lessened the enjoyment none (english? idk i'm tired)

sharp and smart and without any intention, a variation on a very common theme recently (lol) — and quite surprising for its times really, in terms of gender analysis (particularly of women, it's not as misogynistic as one would assume maybe? just me?) in relationships and society etc etc

bit of a lacklustre ending or maybe i was just extremely tired (2minute microdosing nap check) hence the lukewarm 4 stars

will def be attending more opera when i can though!

(goodnight!)

[Bernardo Henríquez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honestamente, esta ópera es bien cómica. La trama de los swingers es bien interesante y la configuración instrumental del clasicismo es relativamente fácil de digerir.

Dentro de la ópera hay muchas formas tripartitas compuestas, por lo que la ópera de tres horas puede resumirse a menos partes de las que parece tener.

[lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

i need to see it on stage😔☝️

[Recensioni in tre parole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ironico. Teatrale. Elegante.

[E7boehm · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good text plays beautiful games. Dover translation is rather good and I want to read it again and see it again. I like the complexity of Sex and the the class of cynicism and naivete. The wisdom of experience the flightiness of our desires and the conflict it causes. The malleability of love and getting what we want instead of what accidentally happens. All done well great libretto which is so well enhanced by the music...

[gina · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars, I liked this! A very funny plot and great stanzas... Perhaps my favourite line:

"The fidelity of women
is like the Arabian phoenix:
everyone says that is exists;
but where it is, no one knows."

[James · Rating 1 out of 5]

Over performed.

[Amaranta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Commedia buffa, piena di equivoci, sotterfugi e lieto fine. Piacevolissima.