Word: giardiniera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
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