An introduction to-- Mozart : Così fan tutte

Resource Information

The work An introduction to-- Mozart : Così fan tutte represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

An introduction to-- Mozart : Così fan tutte

Title remainder

Così fan tutte

Statement of responsibility

written by Thomson Smillie

Title variation

• Mozart, Così fan tutti
• Così fan tutti

Creator

• Smillie, Thomson

Contributor

• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
• Timson, David

Narrator

• Timson, David

Subject

• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
• Operas -- Analysis, appreciation
• Operas -- Excerpts
• Operas -- Stories, plots, etc
• Stories, plots, etc
• Streaming audio
• Electronic audio files

Genre

• Stories, plots, etc
• Excerpts
• Electronic audio files
• Streaming audio

Language

• eng
• ita
• eng

Summary

This series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of major operas. Using the principal themes and arias, taken from the Naxos recording of the complete work, Thomson Smillie is informative yet entertaining, enabling the listener to get more from this remarkable art form. Così fan tutte contains some of Mozart's most sublime music. On one level, the opera is purely a social anecdote about young people falling in and out of love; but Mozart was a supreme sensualist and a great humanist, and invested the tale with all his understanding of humanity and young love. On this audio, David Timson refutes the charge that Mozart squandered his genius on a work full of trivial nonsense and proves this 'miraculous yet problematic' opera to be a great work of theatre. To listen to this thought-provoking examination of the characters and the music is both thoroughly enriching and great fun

Member of

• Opera explained
• Naxos Music Library

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Additional physical form

Also available as compact disc; previously issued as Naxos 8.558069.

Cataloging source

NAXOS

Dewey number

782.1

Form of composition

• operas
• not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Language note

Narrated in English; opera excerpts sung in Italian

LC call number

MT100.M69

LC item number

S65 2007ab

Literary text for sound recordings

other

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Unidentified performers ; David Timson, narrator

Series statement

Opera explained

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable