"The Marriage of Figaro"
source: http://www.timesargus.com/article/20090612/FEATURES02/906120303/1011/FEATURES02
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Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" remains one of the most popular operas ever performed because, despite the comedy's 18th century birth and setting, it portrays real people in timeless situations of love and betrayal.
"'The Marriage of Figaro' opens the door to a new world of opera," wrote the legendary New York Times music critic Harold Schonberg. "It is a scintillating work with real people in it, and the music exposes them for what they are - lovable, vain, capricious, selfish, ambitious, forgiving, philandering. Human beings, in short, all brought alive by the alchemy of a surpassingly inventive and sympathetic musical mind."
The Green Mountain Opera Festival will present this masterpiece on Friday and Sunday, June 19 and 21, at the Barre Opera House, with an international conductor and perhaps the most lavish staging seen in Vermont to date.
"'The Marriage of Figaro' opens the door to a new world of opera," wrote the legendary New York Times music critic Harold Schonberg. "It is a scintillating work with real people in it, and the music exposes them for what they are - lovable, vain, capricious, selfish, ambitious, forgiving, philandering. Human beings, in short, all brought alive by the alchemy of a surpassingly inventive and sympathetic musical mind."
The Green Mountain Opera Festival will present this masterpiece on Friday and Sunday, June 19 and 21, at the Barre Opera House, with an international conductor and perhaps the most lavish staging seen in Vermont to date.
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