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...Huntington Avenue, Mozart's music - the play of its light and intelligence, its frolic and clarity - fills a theater packed with young people. It is a Boston University student production of "The Marriage of Figaro," done in Italian, "Le Nozze de Figaro," the full four acts, uncut, lasting almost four hours. It seems like half an hour. The lovely production could be moved to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera without much apology or revision...
...course, I could have pointed out to my friends that the statistics quoted in the Times--they included figures on frequency of deodorant application, underwear changing and hand washing that I would just as soon not go into in detail--had been put together by a French newspaper, Le Figaro. I could have added that hard on the heels of the Times story I saw a Reuters item about Metro officials having spent five years developing a new fragrance designed to dress up the aroma of Paris subway stations...
...other words, the French are aware that a problem exists. So, significantly, are the English. The Times of London responded to the Figaro statistics with the headline IT'S TRUE: THE FRENCH REALLY ARE THE SMELLIEST IN EUROPE. But are they? I know people, some of them holders of British passports, who insist that upper-class English are the filthiest people on earth. In England, there's an old story about the astounded response of the president of an Oxford college whose students, in a past less distant than you may think, asked for the installation of bathtubs: "Bathtubs! Bathtubs...
...Gill appeared as the Count in the Leverett House Opera's The Marriage of Figaro. The production--"the most charming I have ever been a part of," Gill beams--was organized by the student-directoral team of John Lithgow '67 and John C. Adams...
...Crimson review of Figaro was quite positive...