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Cosi Fan Tutte ( Libretto )

by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,Da Ponte,Lorenzo

This Edition Limited to 300 numbered copies of which this is #14

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Book Description

New York.: Limited editions Club., 2001.. This Edition Limited to 300 numbered copies of which this is #142. Signed by Balthus to the Colophon.. A Very Fine, Pristine, apparently unread copy.LEC prospectus laid-in. Very Rare.. Square Folio. 16.5" x 16.5".. Illustrated with six watercolours by Balthus of costumes and sets for the 1950 production which he designed. Watercolours transposed to woodblocks and editioned on finely surfaced Tosa Hanga hand-made paper by Kenji Shinohara. Hand bound by Winifred Bixler in teal-green imported Japanese silk. Gilt titled grain morocco label to front cover. Encased in velvet lined, teal-green imported Japanese silk Solander box with Gilt titled grain morocco label to spine. Laid-in to specially designed pockets at front of case are 3 CD's of the opera as presented at the Aix-en-Provence festival of July, 1957, a repeat of the one for which Balthus had designed the scenes and costumes. The performance was performed by L'Orchestre de la Societe des concerts du Conservatoire de Paris under the direction of Hans Rosbaud, with Teresa Stich-Randall, other distinguished singers, and the Festival Chorus. Balthasar Kossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 in Paris – February 18, 2001 in Rossinière, Switzerland), known as Balthus (pronounced "Bal-TOOSS"), was an esteemed but controversial Polish/French modern artist.Balthus's style is primarily classical. His work shows numerous influences, including the writings of Emily Brontë, the writings and photography of Lewis Carroll, and the paintings of Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Simone Martini, Poussin, Jean Etienne Liotard, Joseph Reinhardt, Géricault, Ingres, Goya, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Courbet, Edgar Degas, Félix Vallotton and Paul Cézanne. Although his technique and compositions were inspired by pre-renaissance painters, there also are eerie intimations of contemporary surrealists like de Chirico. Painting the figure at a time when figurative art was largely ignored, he is widely recognised as an important 20th century artist. His favourite composer was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and would sing selected Mozart arias whilst shaving. Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (Thus Do They All, or The School For Lovers) K. 588, is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was written by Lorenzo da Ponte.Così fan tutte is one of the three Mozart operas for which da Ponte wrote the libretto. The other two da Ponte-Mozart collaborations were 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.The title, Così fan tutte, literally means "Thus do all [women]" but it is often translated as "Women are like that". The words are sung by the three men in Act II, Scene xiii, just before the finale. Da Ponte had used the line "Così fan tutte le belle" earlier in Le nozze di Figaro (in Act I, Scene vii).Mozart and Da Ponte took as a theme "fiancée swapping" which dates back to the 13th century, with notable earlier versions being those of Boccaccio's Decameron and Shakespeare's play Cymbeline. Elements from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew are also present. Furthermore, it incorporates elements of the myth of Procris as found in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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