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26/04/2014

Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Live from the Met, Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, James Levine conducts Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, James Levine conducts a performance of what is regarded as Mozart's greatest opera, Cosi fan Tutte.

Ferrando and Guglielmo are so confident about the virue of their lovers, the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, that when Don Alfonso proposes a wager that he can prove them unfaithful, they are happy to accept. The young officers are made to pretend to be called to war, before returning disguised as Albanians to woo the sisters. It's not long before the ladies succumb to temptation, but with the wrong man. Susanna Philips and Isabel Leonard sing the fickle sisters, and Matthew Polenzani and Rodion Pogossov are the men whose confidence in love is shattered.

Presented by Margaret Juntwait and Ira Siff.


Fiordiligi.....Susanna Phillips (Soprano)
Dorabella.....Isabel Leonard (Mezzo-soprano)
Despina.....Danielle de Niese (Soprano)
Ferrando.....Matthew Polenzani (Tenor)
Guglielmo.....Rodion Pogossov (Baritone)
Don Alfonso.....Maurizio Muraro (Bass)
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
James Levine (Conductor).

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