MOZART: Cosi Fan Tutte - teKanawa, Baltsa, Allen, Van Allan, Burrows, Colin Davis, Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus (3 CDs)

Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588

Stuart Burrows (Ferrando), Thomas Allen (Guglielmo), Richard Van Allan (Don Alfonso), Kiri Te Kanawa (Fiordiligi), Agnes Baltsa (Dorabella), Daniela Mazzucato (Despina)

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Colin Davis

Mozart specialist Colin Davis directs an exceptional recording of this witty, sophisticated, compact, comic opera. The superlative cast, including a stellar Kiri Te Kanawa, and the excellent orchestra respond to Davis's finely polished account of the score, deftly balancing the humanity, irony, pain and humour of Da Ponte's complex battle of the
sexes.

Packaged in an attractive clamshell box with full libretto online.
Recorded at the Royal Opera
House, London, 27 January 1981.

"it offers abundant pleasures. Te Kanawa recorded an earlier Fiordiligi...and a later...: neither manifests the personality and velvety warmth of tone of show here, and her virtuosity in 'Come Scoglio' is staggering. Thomas Allen's Guglielmo, too, is impeccably sung." --BBC Music Magazine