Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gregory Biss will conduct the Bach Society Orchestra in its second concert of the year at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Paine Hall. The program will include works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Ruggles...
...costumed doorman, the gala black tie throng, and hot bitter demitasses during the interval were enough to make the evening. But producer Walter Jewell included an opera to boot, with lots of buffa schmaltz, all the trimmings: a bevy of beautiful girls, elegant costumes, and a glittering Mozart score with a light, frothy libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte...
...soldiers disguise themselves as Armenians, or something, and try to seduce each other's girl. After a longish time which passes quickly with this stellar cast, they execute the scheme successfully. Alas! Traiterous, damned women! No, not really, because Mozart was really worried about his wife while he was writing this opera (some say she was the biggest attraction for visiting firemen in Baden toward the end of the eighteenth century) but Mozart loved her. So the troupe with a wonderfully contagious stoicism, sings, "Happy is the man who takes everything as it comes...
Greg was off-stage again, still comparing Mozart to G&S. "G&S can carry a show on cleverness alone, but here you have to practice. The orchestra was even told to practice at home. When this performance was announced, a lot of people laughed; I hear the last Mozart done here was terrible." Greg grimaced and then laughed...
...This opera is made for the audience," Tom Webber, a sophomore who plays Don Alfonso, Mozart's embodiment of deception, broke in. "If they're alert, they'll get it." Tom gets lots of chances to play directly to his audience while being deceptive, coming to the front of the stage and telling them how deceptive he is. "As anyone can see, I'm not bashful," he said. "I enjoy singing and acting. This opera is close to drama. The recitatives have been cut and dialogue substituted so that we don't have to sing on sixteenth-notes. Doing...