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...Librettist Calzabigi, he has provided a text for a youth who once was one of Austria's most promising child prodigies, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Their work, La Finta Giardiniera, was staged in Munich last year, and Mozart hopes to find sponsors for further productions. Mozart has been performing publicly on the harpsichord and violin since the age of six, but his remarkable gift seems to be turning mainly toward composition. Still only 20, he has already written ten Masses for his employer, the Archbishop of Salzburg, as well as a prodigious total of seven other operas, 18 violin sonatas...
...Mozartians, Epic offers a series of highlights from La Finta Giardiniera (mono), written when Mozart...
What tickled Terre Haute-and two dozen other towns-was an English-language version of a little-known Mozart opera called Merry Masquerade (originally La Finta Giardiniera). Written when the composer was 18, it lampoons 18th century operatic oddities in their own terms: a nobleman thinks his wife is dead and plans to marry a pretty young thing who is actually in love with an untitled poet. Everybody else in the story is in love with somebody else, including the wife, who is really alive but disguised as a lady gardener in order to win back her count. Most everyone...
This organization has been formed to produce in New York light foreign operas which have never been seen in this country. Otto Kahn, it is rumored, is the chief backer. The opening presentation, an English version of Mozart's La Finto Giardiniera', will be given on January 18 at the Mayfair Theatre...
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