Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Beginnings and overture(s)

New term, new venue and, for this session, only one (or thereabouts, anyway) work – Mozart and da Ponte’s comic masterpiece, The Marriage of Figaro.

Course materials
Libretto:
Italian/English Libretto Act 1

Score:
Overture
Act 1, Part 1
Act 1, Part 2

Music: (Schwarzkopf, Taddei, Guilini, Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus)
Act 1

Biography:
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais


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