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From “Love Experiment” to Human Nature: Ferrando’s Image in Così fan tutte

Authors
Haopeng Liu1, *
1Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
*Corresponding author. Email: tchaikylhp@outlook.com
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Haopeng Liu
Available Online 31 December 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-511-9_13How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Cosi fan tutte; Ferrando; Music-drama
Abstract

Mozart’s opera Così fan tutte has become a highly controversial classic in classical music drama for its pungent deconstruction of love and human nature. This paper aims to deeply analyze the portrayal and significance of the character Ferrando in Così fan tutte. Based on Mozart’s artistic techniques in opera creation during the Classical period, this study explores the characteristics of Ferrando’s arias in the opera from two dimensions: musical composition and dramatic plot—such as how melody, rhythm, harmony, etc., depict his personality traits. Meanwhile, it analyzes Ferrando’s behavioral motivations and psychological changes in complex emotional relationships and plot development, discussing the character’s naive and contradictory traits revealed in the trials of love. The study of Ferrando’s characterization not only helps to better understand the artistic charm of Mozart’s operas but also excavates the enlightenment of the work’s character portrayal for later opera creation, providing a new perspective for the theoretical research on opera characterization.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2025)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 December 2025
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978-2-38476-511-9
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-38476-511-9_13How to use a DOI?
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© 2025 The Author(s)
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