Cosi fan tutte Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1956 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Hans Schwieger Stage Director(s) Paul Hager Stage setting and lighting by George Jenkins Chorus Director Gianni Lazzari Costume sketches James Stearns Costumers Goldstein & Co. Metal furniture by Molla Cast Fiordiligi Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Dorabella, her sister Nell Rankin Despina, maid to Fiordiligi and Dorabella Patrice Munsel Ferrando, Dorabella's fiancé Richard Lewis Guglielmo, Fiordiligi's fiancé Frank Guarrera Don Alfonso Lorenzo Alvary Show Dates Fri, Nov 2 1956, 8pm Time and Place Eighteenth-century Naples Scenes Act I, Scene 1 -- A sidewalk café Scene 2 -- A garden of Fiordiligi and Dorabella's villa Scene 3 -- The ladies' boudoir Scene 4 -- The garden Act II, Scene 1 -- The ladies' boudoir Scene 2 -- The garden Scene 3 -- The ladies' boudoir Scene 4 -- The drawing room of the villa Notes New Production In observance of the Mozart Bicentenary