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OPERA ATELIER'S THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre

Toronto Event Date: Tue, April 27, 2010

07:30 PM

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OPERA ATELIER'S THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO

The idea of assimilating the characters of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro to the stock figures of commedia dell’arte or “Italian Comedy” initially came from viewing a series of 18th century engravings illustrating Beaumarchais’ original text.

They depicted the characters of the play in a manner astonishingly reminiscent of the familiar personae of the commedia. On examination, da Ponte’s libretto, based on Beaumarchais’ work, confirmed the initial intuition, and there proved to be no difficulty in analogizing the figures of the opera with those of the commedia. Perhaps this is not surprising. Commedia dell’arte has had a considerable influence on French theatre since the time of Molire. Like so many of the scenarios which have survived from the commedia tradition, The Marriage of Figaro presents a comedy of intrigue, and the diversification of characters in the comedy closely parallels that of the traditional commedia dell’arte.



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