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His characters laugh and suffer together, often in the same musical phrase.",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":11},"minimark",[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":14},"",2,[],"md",{},true,[19,22,25,28],{"title":20,"slug":21},"The Marriage of Figaro","le-nozze-di-figaro",{"title":23,"slug":24},"Don Giovanni","don-giovanni",{"title":26,"slug":27},"The Magic Flute","il-flauto-magico",{"title":29,"slug":30},"Così fan tutte","cosi-fan-tutte",1,"/en/mozart",{"title":5,"description":12},"mozart","en/mozart/index","1756 — 1791","4Z7YA871M_gLALnC1tta1hrzzOqhRDRKz1A-OA7V514",[39,95,140,185],{"id":40,"title":29,"anno":41,"aria":42,"atti":45,"bio":6,"body":58,"compositore":62,"description":12,"extension":15,"finale":63,"meta":64,"navigation":17,"opere":6,"order":6,"path":65,"personaggi":66,"seo":91,"slug":6,"stem":92,"tagline":93,"years":6,"__hash__":94},"en/en/mozart/cosi-fan-tutte.md","Vienna, 1790",{"nome":43,"descrizione":44},"Soave sia il vento","A trio of heartbreaking beauty: two women and a cynical old man bid farewell to the departing ships. Mozart knows the scene is a lie — and makes it beautiful anyway.",[46,49,52,55],{"titolo":47,"testo":48},"Act I — The Wager","Don Alfonso bets the two young officers that their fiancées — the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella — will not remain faithful if put to the test. The plan: the two pretend to leave for the war, then return in disguise as Albanian strangers and court each other's fiancée. Fiordiligi and Dorabella weep desperately at the departure of their loves. Don Alfonso smiles.",{"titolo":50,"testo":51},"Act I — The Disguises","The two return unrecognisable in moustaches and exotic costumes. They pretend to be struck at first sight by the two women. Dorabella and Fiordiligi are indignant — how dare they? Guglielmo and Ferrando congratulate each other: their women are perfect. Don Alfonso waits.",{"titolo":53,"testo":54},"Act II — The Fall","Despina persuades the two sisters that a little diversion does no harm. Dorabella yields first, to Guglielmo — her sister's fiancé. Fiordiligi holds out longer, with passionate speeches about fidelity, but eventually she too yields to Ferrando. The two officers are shaken: each has seduced the other's fiancée. Ferrando is wounded. Guglielmo laughs — but bitterly.",{"titolo":56,"testo":57},"The Finale — The Wedding and the Unmasking","Don Alfonso pushes things to the limit: he arranges a mock wedding between the swapped couples. In the middle of the ceremony, the original fiancés 'return'. They find the evidence of betrayal. Fury, tears, confessions. Then Don Alfonso reveals everything: it was a game. The original couples reunite — perhaps. Mozart does not tell us whether they are truly happy.",{"type":9,"value":59,"toc":60},[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":61},[],"Mozart","Così fan tutte is Mozart's most modern opera: it punishes no one, absolves no one. It tells us that love is fragile, that fidelity is a difficult choice, and that perhaps Don Alfonso was wrong — not because women are faithful, but because men aren't either.",{},"/en/mozart/cosi-fan-tutte",[67,71,75,79,83,87],{"nome":68,"voce":69,"descrizione":70},"Fiordiligi","Soprano","Convinced she loves her fiancé with absolute fidelity. Her resistance is the longest — and her fall, the most beautiful.",{"nome":72,"voce":73,"descrizione":74},"Dorabella","Mezzo-soprano","Fiordiligi's sister, more frivolous and cheerful. She yields first and with fewer qualms. It is not a flaw — it is honesty.",{"nome":76,"voce":77,"descrizione":78},"Ferrando","Tenor","Dorabella's fiancé. He joins the bet convinced he will win. He discovers that love is more complicated than he thought.",{"nome":80,"voce":81,"descrizione":82},"Guglielmo","Baritone","Fiordiligi's fiancé. More cynical than Ferrando, he laughs at others' weakness — until it is his turn.",{"nome":84,"voce":85,"descrizione":86},"Don Alfonso","Bass — the cynical philosopher","An old philosopher who does not believe in female fidelity. He organises the whole experiment to prove his theory. He is right — and that does not make him likeable.",{"nome":88,"voce":89,"descrizione":90},"Despina","Soprano — the maid","Don Alfonso's accomplice. Practical, ironic, without illusions. Her common sense is the comic counterweight to all the sentimental drama.",{"title":29,"description":12},"en/mozart/cosi-fan-tutte","A cruel experiment on love and fidelity — who comes out unscathed?","1xqUwDMkAiO2qrji5EOKdFzaFIjgbLbLbpVKp3DMnDE",{"id":96,"title":23,"anno":97,"aria":98,"atti":101,"bio":6,"body":111,"compositore":62,"description":12,"extension":15,"finale":115,"meta":116,"navigation":17,"opere":6,"order":6,"path":117,"personaggi":118,"seo":136,"slug":6,"stem":137,"tagline":138,"years":6,"__hash__":139},"en/en/mozart/don-giovanni.md","Prague, 1787",{"nome":99,"descrizione":100},"Là ci darem la mano","Don Giovanni seduces Zerlina in a duet of hypnotic beauty. Evil has never seemed so attractive.",[102,105,108],{"titolo":103,"testo":104},"The Beginning — A Murder, a Catalogue","Don Giovanni attempts to seduce Donna Anna in her bedroom. Her father confronts him. Don Giovanni kills him in a duel, without hesitation. The servant Leporello shows Donna Elvira — another of Giovanni's victims — the famous 'Catalogue': a thousand and three in Spain alone. Elvira had believed she was special.",{"titolo":106,"testo":107},"The Middle — A Man Who Never Stops","Don Giovanni seduces, lies, manipulates. He tries to take the peasant girl Zerlina to bed on the very day of her wedding. He constantly escapes those who pursue him. In the cemetery he finds the Commendatore's statue and, out of sheer bravado, invites it to dinner. The statue accepts.",{"titolo":109,"testo":110},"The End — The Stone Guest","The Commendatore knocks at the door — a statue of ice-cold marble. He seizes Don Giovanni's hand and asks him to repent. Three times he is asked. Three times he says no. The floor opens, flames rise. Don Giovanni is swallowed by hell.",{"type":9,"value":112,"toc":113},[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":114},[],"Don Giovanni is the supreme anti-hero of musical history. Mozart gives us no easy moral: he condemns him, yes, but makes him irresistible to the last. It is the eternal fascination of the forbidden.",{},"/en/mozart/don-giovanni",[119,122,126,129,133],{"nome":23,"voce":120,"descrizione":121},"Baritone — the protagonist","Spanish nobleman, serial seducer, murderer. No remorse, no fear. His vitality is magnetic and terrifying.",{"nome":123,"voce":124,"descrizione":125},"Leporello","Bass — the servant","Loyal to his master out of convenience, he both hates and admires him. He keeps the 'catalogue' of conquests: 2,065 women across Europe.",{"nome":127,"voce":69,"descrizione":128},"Donna Anna","He attempts to seduce her and kills her father. For her, vengeance becomes a reason to live.",{"nome":130,"voce":131,"descrizione":132},"The Commendatore","Bass — the ghost","Donna Anna's father, killed by Don Giovanni. He returns as a stone statue to drag him to hell.",{"nome":134,"voce":69,"descrizione":135},"Donna Elvira","The abandoned ex-lover. She hates him, loves him, cannot stop loving him. She is the most human character in the opera.",{"title":23,"description":12},"en/mozart/don-giovanni","The unrepentant seducer who defies God — and loses","6gpIfi9lligNEUDPGo-36Ksq30ai7Gxum0R5DsCPlFM",{"id":141,"title":26,"anno":142,"aria":143,"atti":146,"bio":6,"body":153,"compositore":62,"description":12,"extension":15,"finale":157,"meta":158,"navigation":17,"opere":6,"order":6,"path":159,"personaggi":160,"seo":181,"slug":6,"stem":182,"tagline":183,"years":6,"__hash__":184},"en/en/mozart/il-flauto-magico.md","Vienna, 1791",{"nome":144,"descrizione":145},"Der Hölle Rache — The Vengeance Aria","The Queen of the Night soars to a high C with supernatural fury. It is the most celebrated and difficult soprano aria in all opera history.",[147,150],{"titolo":148,"testo":149},"Act I — The Prince and the Mission","Prince Tamino is fleeing a giant serpent when he faints. He is saved by three fairies of the Queen of the Night. The Queen shows him a portrait of her daughter Pamina, kidnapped by the wicked Sarastro, and gives him a magic flute. But when Tamino arrives at Sarastro's palace, he discovers things are not what they seem: Sarastro is wise and benevolent; it is the Queen who is cruel and ambitious.",{"titolo":151,"testo":152},"Act II — The Trials","Sarastro proposes that Tamino undergo initiation trials to earn Pamina and wisdom. Pamina, believing she is being rejected, is on the verge of taking her own life. The Queen of the Night orders Pamina herself to kill Sarastro with a dagger — Pamina refuses. Papageno, who has absolutely no intention of being a hero, eventually finds his Papagena.",{"type":9,"value":154,"toc":155},[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":156},[],"Tamino and Pamina pass together through the trials of fire and water guided by the flute's music. The Queen of the Night is defeated. Light triumphs. Mozart died two months after the premiere.",{},"/en/mozart/il-flauto-magico",[161,165,169,173,177],{"nome":162,"voce":163,"descrizione":164},"Tamino","Tenor — the prince","A young foreign prince. He sets out to rescue a princess and ends up finding wisdom.",{"nome":166,"voce":167,"descrizione":168},"Pamina","Soprano — the princess","Daughter of the Queen of the Night, prisoner of Sarastro. She is no passive victim: she is courageous and risks death for love.",{"nome":170,"voce":171,"descrizione":172},"Papageno","Baritone — the birdcatcher","The comic heart of the opera. He wants no wisdom or heroics: he wants to eat, drink and find a wife. The audience adores him.",{"nome":174,"voce":175,"descrizione":176},"The Queen of the Night","Coloratura soprano","One of the most iconic characters in all opera. She seems good at first, then reveals herself to be dark and vengeful.",{"nome":178,"voce":179,"descrizione":180},"Sarastro","Bass — the wise man","The surface 'villain' who turns out to be the voice of reason and light. An ambiguous and fascinating character.",{"title":26,"description":12},"en/mozart/il-flauto-magico","A Masonic fairy tale of monsters, magic and the eternal battle between light and darkness","lsvIacYH5f94eOQN7pqDM_atc7IrPKvnjNFkwGpeg-Q",{"id":186,"title":20,"anno":187,"aria":188,"atti":191,"bio":6,"body":201,"compositore":62,"description":12,"extension":15,"finale":205,"meta":206,"navigation":17,"opere":6,"order":6,"path":207,"personaggi":208,"seo":228,"slug":6,"stem":229,"tagline":230,"years":6,"__hash__":231},"en/en/mozart/le-nozze-di-figaro.md","Vienna, 1786",{"nome":189,"descrizione":190},"Porgi, amor","The Countess begs Love to return her husband to her — or let her die. One of the most beautiful melodies ever written.",[192,195,198],{"titolo":193,"testo":194},"Act I — The Eve of the Wedding","Figaro and Susanna are about to be married. The problem is that the Count has set his eyes on Susanna and wants to exercise the right of the first night — a medieval privilege allowing the master to take the bride before her husband. Figaro discovers the plan and swears to foil it. Meanwhile, Cherubino — the teenage page — is hopelessly in love with every woman in the castle and creates chaos wherever he goes.",{"titolo":196,"testo":197},"Acts II and III — Disguises and Deceptions","Susanna and the Countess join forces against the Count. The plan: make the Count believe he has a secret rendezvous with Susanna, and send the Countess in disguise instead. In the middle: endless misunderstandings, people hiding behind chairs and windows, a page jumping out of a window, and the Count constantly made to look foolish without understanding why. The scene where the Countess forgives Susanna — and then asks forgiveness herself — is one of the most moving in all opera history.",{"titolo":199,"testo":200},"Act IV — The Triumph of the Servants","In the garden at night, the chaos reaches its peak. The Count woos who he believes to be Susanna — but it is his own wife. He is unmasked, humiliated before everyone. The Countess, with extraordinary dignity, forgives him. The Count, for the first time, genuinely kneels and apologises.",{"type":9,"value":202,"toc":203},[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":204},[],"Everyone is reconciled, the wedding is celebrated, and Mozart leaves us with the feeling that love — even when it hurts — is always worth it. It is an opera that laughs at power and celebrates the intelligence of those who have none.",{},"/en/mozart/le-nozze-di-figaro",[209,212,216,220,224],{"nome":210,"voce":120,"descrizione":211},"Figaro","The Count's servant, brilliant, cunning and in love. He is the true hero of the story.",{"nome":213,"voce":214,"descrizione":215},"Susanna","Soprano — Figaro's fiancée","The Countess's maid. Just as clever as Figaro, and often the one who saves the day.",{"nome":217,"voce":218,"descrizione":219},"Count Almaviva","Baritone — the villain","A powerful, selfish, libertine nobleman. He holds the power of life and death over his servants — and uses it.",{"nome":221,"voce":222,"descrizione":223},"The Countess","Soprano — the Count's wife","Noble, dignified, deeply wounded by her husband's indifference. Her musical moments are the most beautiful in the opera.",{"nome":225,"voce":226,"descrizione":227},"Cherubino","Mezzo-soprano — the page","A teenage boy madly in love with every woman in the castle. Comic and tender at once.",{"title":20,"description":12},"en/mozart/le-nozze-di-figaro","A frantic comedy about love, power and the art of unmasking the powerful","ZgCHV8bP0fzuaFqo1twS6Gtt6Ty3iihCyDREHBz92wU",1774014353061]