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 1963 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Janos Ferencsik Stage Director(s) Paul Hager Designer George Jenkins Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Recitative accompaniment George Lawner Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Ferrando, Dorabella's fiancé Cesare Valletti Guglielmo, Fiordiligi's fiancé Hermann Prey Don Alfonso, an elderly bachelor Leonardo Wolovsky Fiordiligi, a lady of Ferrara Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Dorabella, her sister Helen Vanni Despina, their maid Reri Grist Show Dates Fri, Nov 8 1963, 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