MOT revisits a Mozart gem: 'The Marriage of Figaro'

"The Marriage of Figaro" finds Mozart working at the absolute peak of his powers, delineating character and drama through music with breathtaking efficiency, turning out sublime melodies as easily as other composers wrote their names and juggling structural devices with the skills of a wizard. The opera is magic, at once a rich comedy of manners and a complex tale of sexual intrigue. It is also one of those masterpieces that speaks with such direct musical expression that it plays to anyone, fro...

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