Mozart's Così Fan Tutte: A Short Guide to a Great Opera

A couple of smooth army officers in metropolitan Naples become increasingly horrified as they find that they are losing their bet with a misogynist philosopher. The wager? That their fiancées will be faithful. Their disguise as Albanians in an attempt to entrap their fiancées, and the complicity of the naughty maid, who feigns as a lawyer organising their 'marriage', provide hilarious moments in an opera full of favourite tunes. Lorenzo da Ponte's libretto was long considered indecent and u...