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 1960 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Kurt Herbert Adler Stage Director(s) Paul Hager Stage setting by George Jenkins Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Musical Preparation Otto Guth Hans Georg Schaefer Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Fiordiligi Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Dorabella, her sister Katherine Hilgenberg Despina, maid to Fiordiligi and Dorabella Mary Costa Ferrando, Dorabella's fiancé Richard Lewis Guglielmo, Fiordiligi's fiancé Frank Guarrera Don Alfonso Paul Schoeffler Show Dates Wed, Nov 9 1960, 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 Corps de Ballet