The plot and characters of "Così fan tutte" are such that to write about them, I have to stick this in my draft just to keep them straight: Ferrando, tenor, is mezzo Dorabella’s fellow Gulgielmo, baritone, is soprano Fiordiligi’s fellow
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I remember it my singing the first words in Ferrando’s voice: la mia Dorabella, then take it from there
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If only I were a tenor!
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The couples are arranged in order based on the ascending degree of difficulty, for English speakers, of correctly pronouncing their names phonetically.
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Outer voices vs inner voices.
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The score says Dorabella is a soprano role, though.
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Unreliable narrator.
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Ahem.
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