Cosí Fan Tutte: A Masterpiece of Italian Opera
Cosí fan tutte, or “Thus Do All Women,” is a comic opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto, by Lorenzo da Ponte, is based on a play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The opera premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on January 6, 1790. Cosí fan tutte is one of Mozart’s most…