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XM 8069
Opera Explained: Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte (Smillie)
Label Catalogue Number:
8.558069
8.558069
ISBN: 9781843793151
Download Size: 80 Mb
Running Time: 01:18:32
Download Size: 80 Mb
Running Time: 01:18:32
Release Date: January 2003
Originally recorded in 2003
Originally recorded in 2003
Author
Thomson Smillie
Thomson Smillie
Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Reader
David Timson
David Timson
Genre:
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
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Opera Explained: Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte (Smillie)
Read by David Timson
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. In this title, 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.
