Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite its high quality, the Summer School's New Opera Company doesn't really fill the need--its version of The Marriage of Figaro is a concert one, with no recitatives, few choruses, and singers standing up in tails. Much of the comedy inevitably gets lost. Beaumarchais's original version, first produced just five years before the French Revolution, was regarded as dangerously subversive because it concerned a valet's just victory over his adultery-minded master...
...Opera Company presents Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." August 17, 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theater. Tickets $2 with Summer School Privilege Card, otherwise $3.50. Tickets at Loeb Drama Center or Holyoke Center Ticket Office...
Sign up to usher for Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Dean's Office, Lehman B-3. Performances are August...
...Figaro, La Croix and other defenders of Daniélou sharply challenged Canard's suggestion that Daniélou had died in flagrante delicto. The French episcopacy denounced the "grave insinuations" concerning the cardinal's death, insisting that "his apostolate extended to the most diverse realms, often to the most disreputable and downtrodden persons both inside and outside the church...
...Caldwell's special gift to trust the music and take its humor seriously. Her gags never intrude on purely musical moments, but when they come they are fresh and funny. Figaro enters not from the wings but from-the audience, beginning the Largo al factotum at about row S. In the lesson scene Rosina hits a high C and the glass in Bartolo's hand shatters. During the Act II storm, Bartolo's hat and umbrella are swept skyward by the wind (on a wire, of course...