2010 Opera Seminar - The Marriage of Figaro
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When:
| Sun 11 Apr ’10, 2:00pm–5:00pm |
Where: Victoria University Government Buildings/Law , 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
Ticket Information:
- Adult: $31.00
- Early Bird/Community Service Card holder: $35.00
- VUW staff/Full time students: $17.00
- Friends of the NBR NZ Opera, NZ Opera Society & U3A Ohariu: $25.00
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In Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, the servant couple Figaro and Susanna want to be married, but their aristocratic employer Count Almaviva withholds permission, because he lusts after Susanna himself. After wonderfully convoluted plotting and counter-intrigue, the aristocrat is the loser in this battle of wits.
To produce an opera based on Beaumarchais' play was a huge, calculated risk for Mozart. Because of the controversial plot, the play was banned by the censor from performance in Vienna at the time. History has since proven The Marriage of Figaro as one of Mozart's greatest and most enduringly popular works.
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