MUSIC

Rice University Shepherd School of Music presents Shepherd School Opera - Così fan tutte, by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart.  Friday, Nov. 4 - 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 6 - 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 8 - 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 10 - 7:30 p.m. In the Wortham Opera Theatre - Alice Pratt Brown Hall at  Rice University. 

Featuring:
Shepherd School Opera and members of the Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra

Richard Bado, conductor
Vera Calábria, stage director

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 first performed in 1790. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. 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.

Pictured:  Johann Nepomuk della Croce (1736-1819), Amadeus Mozart. Cropped version of the painting where Mozart is seen with Anna Maria's sister and father, Leopold, on the wall a portrait of his deceased mother, Anna Maria., 1780-81, Oil on canvas.