Editing Così fan tutte (section)

==Roles==
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|+{{sronly|Roles, voice types, premiere cast}}
!Role
![[Voice type]]<ref name=NMA2>''NMA'' score, [https://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/scan.php?vsep=306&l=1&p1=1#p2 p. 2]</ref>
!Premiere cast, 26 January 1790<br />Conductor: W. A. Mozart
|-
| Fiordiligi, ''lady from Ferrara and sister to Dorabella, living in Naples''
|[[soprano]]
|[[Adriana Ferrarese del Bene|Adriana Ferrarese]]
|-
| Dorabella, ''lady from Ferrara and sister to Fiordiligi, living in Naples''
|soprano<!-- See reference provided at "Voice type" and the paragraph just below. -->
|{{ill|Louise Villeneuve|fr||lt=Louise (Luisa) Villeneuve}}
|-
|Guglielmo (spelled "Guilelmo" by the librettist), ''lover of Fiordiligi, a soldier''
|[[baritone]]<ref name=operaarias>Opera Arias, [https://www.opera-arias.com/mozart/cosi-fan-tutte/]</ref><ref name=ariadatabase>Aria Database, [https://www.aria-database.com/cgi-bin/aria-search.pl?opera=Cos%EC+fan+tutte&r]</ref>
|[[Francesco Benucci]]
|-
| Ferrando, ''lover of Dorabella, a soldier''
|[[tenor]]
|[[Vincenzo Calvesi]]
|-
| Despina, ''a maid''
|soprano
|{{ill|Dorotea Bussani|it}}
|-
| Don Alfonso, ''an old philosopher''
|bass
|{{ill|Francesco Bussani|it}}
|-
| colspan="3"|''Chorus: soldiers, servants, sailors''
|}

While the use of modern [[fach]] titles and voice categories for these roles has become customary, Mozart was far more general in his own descriptions of the voice types, as shown [[#Roles|above]].<ref name=NMA2 /><ref>{{Cite Grove|author=[[Julian Rushton]]|title=''Così fan tutte'' [''Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti'' (''All Women do the Same, or The School for Lovers'')]|year=2002|id=O003389}}</ref> Occasionally these voice types are varied in performance practice. Don Alfonso is sometimes performed by baritones such as [[Thomas Allen (baritone)|Thomas Allen]], [[Bo Skovhus]], and [[Thomas Hampson]], and Dorabella is almost always performed by a [[mezzo-soprano]]. Despina is occasionally performed by a mezzo-soprano, such as [[Cecilia Bartoli]], [[Frederica von Stade]], [[Agnes Baltsa]], [[Ann Murray]] and [[Ginger Costa-Jackson]]. Ferrando and Fiordiligi, however, can only be sung by a tenor and a soprano because of the high [[tessitura]] of their roles.