Two Figaros? Wasn't one enough?
I due Figaro (or the second Figaro) is an opera with music by Saverio Mercadante and a libretto by Felice Romani written in 1826 and performed for the first time in America in October 3011 by the Amore Opera.
It is fifteen years after Susanna and Figaro marry. Cherubino has returned from the war and wants to marry the daughter of the count, who, of course, loves him but is promised to an old fortune hunter. Cherubino arrives at the court of the Count in disguise and claims his name is Figaro. You can imagine it. What--you're Figaro? I'm Figaro! etc. etc. Complications insure.
The first thing you realize is that this is not Mozart, but after you over that, it becomes fun. It does not have a serious note in its score, but it is pretty and fun.
I due Figaro (or the second Figaro) is an opera with music by Saverio Mercadante and a libretto by Felice Romani written in 1826 and performed for the first time in America in October 3011 by the Amore Opera.
It is fifteen years after Susanna and Figaro marry. Cherubino has returned from the war and wants to marry the daughter of the count, who, of course, loves him but is promised to an old fortune hunter. Cherubino arrives at the court of the Count in disguise and claims his name is Figaro. You can imagine it. What--you're Figaro? I'm Figaro! etc. etc. Complications insure.
The first thing you realize is that this is not Mozart, but after you over that, it becomes fun. It does not have a serious note in its score, but it is pretty and fun.
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