But it hides a darker truth: the composer’s doubts about the Enlightenment.
By Jane Glover [Guardian, 5 May 2006]
Of the great trilogy of operas written by Mozart with Lorenzo da Ponte, Cosi Fan Tutte is often considered the weakest. After the fierce revolutionary fervour of Le Nozze di Figaro, with its profound sympathy and human understanding, and then the shocking violence of Don Giovanni, the couple-swapping of Cosi Fan Tutte seems almost frivolous. Even Mozart’s widow Constanze confessed, in her late 70s, that she had never really cared for the plot.
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Hello, cruel world
But it hides a darker truth: the composer’s doubts about the Enlightenment.
By Jane Glover [Guardian, 5 May 2006]
Of the great trilogy of operas written by Mozart with Lorenzo da Ponte, Cosi Fan Tutte is often considered the weakest. After the fierce revolutionary fervour of Le Nozze di Figaro, with its profound sympathy and human understanding, and then the shocking violence of Don Giovanni, the couple-swapping of Cosi Fan Tutte seems almost frivolous. Even Mozart’s widow Constanze confessed, in her late 70s, that she had never really cared for the plot.
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image_description=Cosi fan tutte (Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin)