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Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti [a] (Women are like that, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time.
Così fan tutte (Women are like that or All women do that) [aj] Dramma giocoso 2 acts Italian Da Ponte: 3 soprano, 1 tenor, 1 baritone, 1 bass, chorus 26 January 1790 Burgtheater, Vienna K.588 Score Libretto: 1790 Der Stein der Weisen (The Philosopher's Stone) (Pasticcio composed with J. B. Henneberg, F. Gerl, B. Schack and E. Schikaneder ...
The overture begins with a thundering D minor cadence, followed by a short misterioso sequence which leads into a light-hearted D major allegro. The garden of the Commendatore Leporello, Don Giovanni's servant, grumbles about his demanding master and daydreams about being free of him (" Notte e giorno faticar " – "Night and day I slave away").
The opera was the first of three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte, followed by Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais's play and brought it to Da Ponte, who turned it into a libretto in six weeks, rewriting it in poetic Italian and removing all of the original's political references.
Così fan tutte is a 178-minute studio album of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera, performed by Jules Bastin, Philippe Huttenlocher, Kiri Te Kanawa, David Rendall, Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas with the Choeurs de l'Opéra du Rhin and the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Alain Lombard. It was released in 1978.
12 Variations in E ♭ major on the French song "La belle Françoise", K. 353 (Vienna, 1781) 12 Variations in E♭ major on the Romance "Je suis Lindor" from " Le Barbier de Seville " by Pierre Beaumarchais , music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron , K. 354 (Paris, 1778)
The overture, composed after the other parts of the opera were complete, begins with a solemn three-chord sequence from the brass, associated with the Priests of the Temple of Wisdom. (The number three is highly significant in Freemasonry and recurs as the number of ladies, boys and temples.) [ 36 ] It transitions in an adagio to a lively fugue ...