Mozart, W A - 3CD-BOX: Così fan tutte - Kanawa, Kiri Te
Recorded at the Royal Opera House, London, 27 January 1981
Ferrando: Stuart Burrows
Guglielmo: Thomas Allan
Don Alfonso: Richard Van Allan
Fiordiligi: Kiri Te Kanawa
Dorabella: Agnes Baltsa
Erda: Christa Mayer
Despina: Daniela Mazzucato
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Colin Davis, conductor
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.