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NBC TELEVISION OPERA THEATRE TO PRESENT 1 MARRIAGE OP FIGARO ‘
IN ENGLISH, COMPLETE IN TWO SECTIONS, ON FEB, 6 AND 13
Mozart’s immortal comedy opera, "The Marriage of Figaro," will be the season’s fourth production of the NBC Television Opera Theatre. It will be given complete in two sections on Feb. 6 and 13 (NBC -TV, 4-5:30 p.m., EST) , in a new English translation of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s original libretto in Italian, Edward Eager translated the arias, and he and the NBC Television Opera Department translated the recitatives.
Peter Herman Adler, who will conduct the performances, also is the artistic director, preparing the work. Singers will be Virginia Haskins as Susanna, Ralph Herbert as Figaro, Laurel Hurley as Countess Almaviva, William Shriner as Count Almaviva, and Ann Crowley as Cherubino. Others in the cast will be Ruth Kobart, Emile Renan, Anne Weeks, Robert Holland, John McCollum and Paul Ukena.
Acts one and two will be telecast on Feb. 6, and acts three and four on Feb. 13. While not one note of the Mozart score will be touched, two short scenes will be added. These scenes were in the original play by Beaumarchais, on which Da Ponte based his libretto.
But at that time they were considered too revolutionary and were ex¬ cluded from the opera. In fact, Da Ponte had to get the emperor's permission to do the libretto in the first place, since the play had been banned in Paris and Vienna. The scenes are musically set in dry
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