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Figaro Count Almaviva Rosina Susanna Giaochino Rossini Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro are two of the most performed and popular operas in the repertoire. Persons of my generation are familiar with the music, if only from the cartoons of the esteemed one Bugs... Continue Reading →
The biggest hole in my education is the knowledge of other languages, besides my native English. Seriously, it is a wide gaping expanse that you could drive a truck through. I know just enough Italian, German, French or Spanish to start a bar fight in some of the best pubs and cafes in Europe. My... Continue Reading →
By far, the most popular of Mozart’s operas are the three opera buffa that he wrote to libretti by Lorenzo Da Ponte. The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan Tutti are beloved works that are regularly performed to this day. Opera buffa rose in popularity to overtake opera seria in the middle and... Continue Reading →
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