Mozart, Riccardo Muti - Così Fan Tutte album

Riccardo Muti conducts the Wiener Staatsoper Orchestra and Chorus in Japan.

Find the lyrics for Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588, Act 1. .

Riccardo Muti had made a sensational Salzburg début in 1971 and this Così fan tutte was his first Mozart opera at the festival. It was acclaimed by both the general public and international critics, who were virtually unanimous in their praise of the aesthetic quality of the production. Così fan tutte is the third most-frequently performed work at the festival after Le nozze di Figaro and Die Zauberflöte. This DVD provides a closer look at a classical staging from the Salzburg Festival in the series of important opera productions seen at the festival in the last decades. Riccardo Muti had made a sensational Salzburg début in 1971 and this Così fan tutte was his first Mozart opera at the festival.

The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte who also wrote Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni.

Mozart: Così fan tutte. Sony Classical, 2014. Sony Classical continues its major Mozart opera project with conductor Teodor Currentzis and his orchestra & choir MusicAeterna. A ‘no-compromise’ studio recording cycle of Mozart’s three Da Ponte operas. Living in a unique artistic community established on the edge of Siberia, the musicians work and record under ideal conditions. I think it is a tremendously powerful work because, if Figaro is an opera about revolution in society and art, Così is about revolution in the sphere of love, Currentzis states