Così fan tutte is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on January 26, 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte ...

Viennese court composer Antonio Salieri was never Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s scheming nemesis (sorry, Peter Shaffer with your delightfully wicked Amadeus) so much as he was Mozart’s unwitting irritant.

Mozart was improbably transported to the Roaring ’20s in Virginia Opera’s “Così fan tutte” this past weekend at Norfolk’s Harrison Opera House. While shifted in time, good Mozart (and this is good), ...

I went into LA Opera’s current offering, Michael Cavanagh’s staging of Mozart’s Così fan tutte without any preconceived notions of the libretto, and the program prepared me for the worst. Notes ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Before Vienna, before Mozart, before the trio of libretti that made him immortal, Lorenzo Da Ponte was an itinerant, semi-frocked priest with an irascible charm and a talent ...

Absurdly improbable, shockingly cynical, Mozart’s “Così fan Tutte” is populated by downright stupid and manipulative characters. It is also flooded with Mozartian beauty that offers the depth of ...

LENOX — “Così fan tutte” transcended what a concert performance can be, overflowing the stage and — between wink-nudge props, emotive performances and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s luxuriant music — ...

Although the translation of Mozart’s opera “Così fan tutte” as either “so do they all” or “women are like that” suggests a misogynistic stereotype of the fairer sex, the women in Michael Cavanagh’s ...

When, in Oliver Platt’s production for Opera Holland Park, Eleanor Dennis’s Fiordiligi jumps on the furniture to proclaim her devotion to her absent betrothed as a visiting “Albanian” tries to woo her ...

Così fan tutte, or The School for Lovers, is the last joint opera buffa by Mozart and Da Ponte. The libretto and score were written in a month in December 1789, and the premiere took place at the end ...

Opera San José will kick off its 42nd season with Mozart’s beloved romantic comedy Così Fan Tutte, a sparkling blend of charm and wit that plays out like an 18th-century reality show—“Temptation ...