Cambridge Opera Handbooks: W. A. Mozart: Cos Fan Tutte (Paperback)

Assistant Professor of Music History Bruce Alan Brown; Richard Wagner
Cambridge University Press
9780521437356
0-521-43735-0

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.

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a detailed account of the libretto's complex origins in myth and Italian literary classics.