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CYCLORAMA, BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Associate Artists Opera Company. Montezuma., an opera by Graun and Frederick the Great. Tickets...
...Arlecchino and Gounod's Gift of the Gods. There were also two first performances this week. The New England Regional Opera (NERO) gave Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men its East Coast professional premiere last weekend at the Loeb, and the Associate Artists' Opera Company gave Karl Heinrich Graun's Montezuma its American premiere last night in Boston...
Montezuma has, as Associated Artist's press releases modestly put it, "an unusual libretto by Frederick the Great." Graun was the flutist-emperor's court composer, and his duties included writing opera seria, all of which were naturally forgotten when baroque opera went out of style. The Associated Artists have resurrected Montezuma, with the castrati parts down an octave so that men can sing them...
There's little point in trying to follow the plot, which deals with the rape of Mexico by imperial Spain, because nothing ever happens in opera seria anyway. Graun's music is very pleasant, and ultimately quite moving...
BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Montezuma. An opera by Karl Heinrich Graun, an eighteenth-century Prussian, in its American premiere. The anti-imperialist libretto is by Frederick the Great. Tomorrow...