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Good Morning! On our tour throughout Austria, we have arrived at Salzburg yesterday, late at night. We will stay two days in this lovely city, before we move on. There are no plans other than a night out at the opera, so you will be on your own to discover this gem among Austrian cities. At 8 pm, we will all meet in front of the opera. <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Salzburger_Landestheater.jpg/800px-Salzburger_Landestheater.jpg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Salzburger_Landestheater.jpg/800px-Salzburger_Landestheater.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> We will enjoy a performance of "Cosi fan tutte" of. W.A. Mozart. Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (Thus Do They All, or The School For Lovers) K. 588, is an Italian language opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed in 1790. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Così fan tutte is one of the three Mozart operas for which Da Ponte wrote the libretto. The other two Da Ponte-Mozart collaborations were Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. Although it is commonly held that Così fan tutte was written and composed at the suggestion of the Emperor Joseph II, recent research does not support this idea.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cos%C3%AC_fan_tutte#cite_note-1"> </a>There is evidence that Mozart's contemporary Antonio Salieri tried to set the libretto but left it unfinished. In 1994, John Rice uncovered two terzetti by Salieri in the Austrian National Library. The title, Così fan tutte, literally means "Thus do all [women]" but it is often rendered as "Women are like that". The words are sung by the three men in act 2, scene 3, just before the finale. Da Ponte had used the line "Così fan tutte le belle" earlier in Le nozze di Figaro (in act 1, scene 7). Enjoy!
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