Così fan tutte

Also known as Cosi fan tutte, Thus Do They All, or The School for Lovers, Thus Do They All, So do they all, Women are like that

Italian-language opera buffa by W. A. Mozart

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Translation: Women are like that, or The School for Lovers
Librettist: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Language: Italian
Premiere: 26 January 1790 ( 1790-01-26 ) , Burgtheater , Vienna

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Image: Photo Milan. Piccola Scala, 1956-57 season. Final scene of Così fan tutte, opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1956 - Touring Club Italiano 04 2010.jpg

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Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (Women are like that, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte who also wrote 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. 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.