Word: serva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Director Crosby is certain that audiences in the Southwest can take their opera straight, during its two-month season will give English-language productions of Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte, Strauss's Ariadne on Naxos, Rossini's Barber of Seville, Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona, plus Stravinsky's Rake's Progress (conducted by Stravinsky Protégé Robert Craft) and the premiere of The Tower, a one-act opera by young (24) U.S. Composer Marvin Levy. Crosby is also proud that his Santa Fe group, recruited from such companies...
...opener is The Maid as Mistress (La Serva Padrona) by Pergolesi. Originally written for performance between the acts of a grand opera, The Maid has survived as a minor masterpiece while the serious works of the period have been forgotten...