Così fan tutte
The focus of Lorenzo Da Ponte's libretto for Così fan Tutte is on female infidelity, two partner-swapping couples, and a wager. Its enigmatic ambiguity and lightness of touch, its razor's edge balance between irony and empathy, detachment and involvement, and on-stage reality and illusion is structured with perfect Classical symmetry. More than any other opera it explores the depths and darker impulses of the experience of love.
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