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 1957 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Erich Leinsdorf Stage Director(s) Paul Hager Chorus Director Gianni Lazzari Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Fiordiligi Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Dorabella, her sister Nan Merriman Despina, maid to Fiordiligi and Dorabella Rita Streich Ferrando, Dorabella's fiancé Richard Lewis Guglielmo, Fiordiligi's fiancé Heinz Blankenburg Don Alfonso Lorenzo Alvary Show Dates Wed, Nov 6 1957, 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