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'Le Nozze di Figaro '
An illustrated study in the origins of Mozart's opera by Hanns Hammelmann and Michael Rose
Readers:
(Continued in next column)
Players:
(in a scene from ' Le Mariage de Figaro ' by Beaumarchais, translated into English by Christopher Sykes )
Singers:
(in excerpts from Mozart's ' Le Nozze di Figaro.' ' L'Oca del Cairo,' ' Lo Sposo deluso,' and Coronation Mass; and Paisiello's ' II Barbiere di
Siviglia Adele Leigh , Joan Sutherland
Catherine Lawson. Rowland Jones
John Kentish , Geraint Evans
John Hargreaves , Michael Langdon
Hugo D'Alton (mandolin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Arthur Leavins)
Conducted by John Pritchard
Repetiteur, George Coop
Production by Christopher Sykes
The aria Manner suchen stets zu nasehen' has been specially reconstructed by Dr. H. F. Rcdlich, whose version of three items in ' L'Oca del Cairo ' is also used. The opening duet from ' L'Oca del Cairo and the overture to ' Lo Sposo deluso are from the version by Hans Erismann.