COSI FAN TUTTE.(Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast)

BROADCAST OF FEBRUARY 24, 2001

SPONSORED BY TEXACO OVER THE TEXACO-METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK, 1:30 P.M.

COSI FAN TUTTE

 
THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance) 
Ferrando             tenor, PAUL GROVES 
Guglielmo       baritone, RODNEY GILFRY 
Don Alfonso       bass, MICHELE PERTUSI 
Fiordiligi      soprano, MELANIE DIENER 
Dorabella           mezzo, SUSAN GRAHAM 
Despina            soprano, DAWN UPSHAW 
 
Conducted by PATRICK SUMMERS 
 
Production: Lesley Koenig 
Set and costume designer: Michael Yeargan 
Lighting designer: Duane Schuler 
Stage director: Robin Guarino 
Chorus master: Raymond Hughes 
Musical preparation: 
 Kevin Murphy, Derrick Inouye, 
 Kathleen Kelly, Bradley Moore 
Assistant stage director: Zoe Pappas 
Harpsichord continuo: Kevin Murphy 
Prompter: Kathleen Kelly 
 
Production a gift of Alberto Vilar 
Additional funding from 
 The Metropolitan Opera Club; 
 The Denenberg Foundation, in honor of 
 Dan Denenberg; The DuBose and 
 Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund; 
 and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Tedlow 
 
THE SCENES                                     Timings (ET) 
 (Naples, 18th c.) 
ACT 1                                             1:30-3:00 
 Sc. 1   A piazza 
 Sc. 2   A terrace overlooking the sea 
 Sc. 3   Fiordiligi and Dorabella's home and 
          garden 
ACT II                                            3:36-5:06 
 Sc. 1   Fiordiligi and Dorabella's home and 
          garden, later that day 
 
Announcer: Peter Allen 
Audio director: Jay David Saks 
 
INTERMISSION FEATURES 
Producer: Michael Bronson     Timings 
Texaco's Opera Quiz(*)      3:00-3:32 
Brian Zeger questions Ken Benson, 
 Martin Bernheimer, Terrence McNally 

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THE STORY

ACT I. In eighteenth-century Naples, the elderly cynic Don Alfonso discusses women with two young officers, Ferrando and Guglielmo. The gallants insist their sweethearts are paragons of virtue ("La mia Dorabella") and accept Alfonso's bet that he can prove the ladies fickle if they do as he says for twenty-four hours.