A comic opera in two acts
Libretto by LORENZO DA ponti Music by Mozart (sung in Italian)
Two officers are induced to test their sweethearts' fidelity by each wooing the other's fiancée in disguise.
CHORUS OF THE VIENNA STATE OPERA chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
(Austrian Radio recording made at this year's Salzburg Festival) Act 1
3.50* Passion and Cynicism
BERNARD WILLIAMS , Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cam-bridge, offers some thoughts on Cosi fan tutte.
4.10* Cosi fan tutte. Act 2