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Ponnelle's Vision of Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Gregory Speck |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 744 Words, 4,472 Characters |
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The most eagerly anticipated event of New York's fall opera season was the new Metropolitan Opera production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle of Mozart's landmark opera Le Nozze di Figaro. Based on the second part of the French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais's trilogy about the character Figaro, The Marriage of Figaro is a tale of adulterous escapades that cross the strict boundaries between the nobility and the servant class. (The trilogy begins with The Barber of Seville, best known through the Rossini opera Le Barbier de Seville, and ends with The Guilty Moth...
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...ramatic version, with one act all in white, and the other all in black, and everyone entering and exiting on roller skates, skateboards, wheelbarrows, and antique automobiles, it was nothing more than a travesty of the great play. At least the Metropolitan Opera production remained approximately faithful to the concepts of playwright Beaumarchais, librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, and composer Mozart.
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