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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