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Aaron Rabushka <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:39:36 -0600
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Arnold Bosman wrote:

>Actually, if you say 'Cosi fan tutti' you include both men AND
>women.............! (Maybe what Mozart had in mind!)

Perhaps it should have been what he had in mine (Hildesheimer points out
that the men's behaviour is what is totally scurrilous here), but I don't
think it's what da Ponte or Don Alfonso (who first speaks the title phrase)
had in mind at all.

Aaron J. Rabushka
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