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Figaro and Cherubino
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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Apr 30, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
We continue our look at the two great Figaro operas with a deep dive into Mozart's dark sexual comedy "Le Nozze di Figaro". We talk about Soren Kierkegaard, "Either/Or", trouser roles, gender ambiguity, castratos, Peter Pan, Harpo Marx, Prince's "Purple Rain", Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Rossini, Strauss, "Der Rosenkavalier", "La Mere Coupable", "Porkys", and Marc Eliot Stein's theory that a Stephen Foster folk song and Leadbelly blues song are inspired by Mozart's operatic masterpiece.
Released:
Apr 30, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (19)
Fiordiligi and Nicola: How I Used Osmosis To Get Over My Lifelong Inability To Love And Understand Opera by Lost Music: Exploring Literary Opera