Analysis On Characterization And Music Of Despina In The Opera ’Cosi Fan Tutte’

Mozart, an European music genius, left precious music fortune, during his short35years. His name is usually modified by gorgeous words. In addition, over600masterpieces lay him an unswerving position in the music history. Among all the works, however, Mozart was keen to operas, which were also his most successful achievements. Mozart had fantastic magic as every character had unique personality, and at the same time, every character had his own individual image of music in his writing. People are inspired from his distinct characters.The article sets Despina as the object of study, supporting actress maid from opera Cosi fan tutte, through deep analysis on characters’ creation and arias. As a complicated character, we are able to excavate plenty of contents to study. The article analyses the role’s personality and arias. After analysis of plots, sets of the translation and excerpts of musical structure from Cosi fan tutte, combined with learning materials of audio and video, we interpret to you how our song writer used a series music approaches to shape this role. Hoping that our effort will provide some referential theoretical analysis to those opera learners and performers, thus opera performers will realize more clearly that how to perform well Despina.The article is composed of4parts. Part one is a brief introduction to Mozart’s life, meanwhile, is to deeply discuss his characteristics of operas. Part two presents background and plots of Cosi fan tutte, and then analyzes and compares roles in the operas. Part three puts emphasis on Despina’s personality. Part four analyzes Despina’s aria in the opera; meanwhile, it compares and analyzes the interpretations from different actresses who acted as Despina through several video versions.