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The Dover edition didn't appear until 2001

and the book includes a translation of the original Introduction and a new Publisher's Note

genealogies

women's roles

with or without a substantial background in the history of music or musical theory

Cosi fan Tutte in Full Score The Dover edition didn't appearTranslated from the Italian, Cosi fan tutte means "That's how all women act"; the libretto, the last of three Lorenzo da Ponte wrote for Mozart, concerns the behavior of women, particularly the behavior of young women in the throes of romantic love. Are they fickle? Are their affections mutable? Their virtue flexible? In Cosi fan tutte, Mozartand Da Ponte answer with resounding affirmatives. In the nearly 200 years since it was first performed at the

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