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- Giles Swayne
Le nozze di Cherubino (1984)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
First act commissioned by the Birmingham School of Music
- continuo (2 Hpd/vc.cb)
- 12 singers (5S, MZ, 2T, 2Bar, 2B)
- 1 hr 50 min
- Giles Swayne
- Italian
Programme Note
An homage to Mozart and Da Ponte, the opera picks up the action about three years after the end of Figaro, at the moment when Cherubino (still played by a girl) returns from his military service and arrives back at the castle of Count Almaviva.
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Reviews
"…indeed an ingenious pastiche which provided a most entertaining evening."
7th February 1985
""...adding strident spice to a new imbroglio. (...) So generaly concise and assured is the unfolding of the opera taht, at the end, one can only admire the extraordinary brilliance of the venture. "
27th January 1985
"Reading the impossibly involved outline of the plot beforehand, I was hardly prepared for the way that the storyline worked just as in genuine Mozart - Da Ponte…his use of an Italian text provides an extra layer of parody and skilfully frames the absurdities."
24th January 1985