Word: libretto
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True to the Dunster House Opera Society’s credo that opera can and should be accessible to the general public, the libretto is adapted into English and the action is transported into 1930s America...
...this adaptation of the opera, Meyers, Salzmann and Schuler have emphasized the story’s universality in an attempt to involve the audience more fully in the characters’ plights. Understanding the content of the libretto, including the banter between characters, also adds to the music an emotional component that may not be possible when the opera isn’t in English...
...With the libretto in English, more attention shifts to the acting, but the cast is up to the challenge. They offer cleverly nuanced performances that energize the characters’ dialogue...
...star of a Mozart opera, though, is always its score, and the orchestra, directed by Schuler, performs the original score with polish. The solid orchestration grounds the adapted opera with a familiar sound that provides the necessary foundation for liberties with the libretto...
...despite the merits and strengths of the performance, it is impossible not to miss the richness of the Italian Libretto. The production does offer a small taste of the original language in the duet in Act III between Susanna and Rosina, in which Rosina, in a wonderfully ironic twist, suggests writing a note to the Governor in Italian. The ensuing duet between the two superbly talented singers recalls the historical and emotional associations the original libretto is able to conjure. These qualities are what Salzmann defines in his Note on the Translation as ties “to a world...