This week the Cleveland Orchestra presents a fully staged production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." Conductor Franz Welser-Möst leads the orchestra in the first staged opera at Severance Hall for over 30 years. Images from this historic production can be seen here.
You may remember the hilarious gag at the end of the famous Warner Bros. cartoon "Rabbit of Seville" where Bugs Bunny drops Elmer Fudd into a huge wedding cake with the words "The Marriage of Figaro" on it. On April 1st, 2009 (April Fool's Day) at 4PM, the Cleveland Public Library Fine Arts Department will host Case Western Reserve University Associate Professor Daniel Goldmark as he presents "Tunes from the ‘Toons: Cartoon Music from Mickey Mouse to Wall-E" in the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium. This program is free and appropriate for kids of all ages and will include audio and visual examples of music in cartoons.
The Cleveland Public Library Fine Arts Department has many recordings of this great opera, as well as the orchestral score and vocal score, libretto, opera analysis, and general books on Mozart's life. For more information on Cleveland's world renowned orchestra, see the following books:
Fanfare: portraits of the Cleveland Orchestra edited by Marilyn Eppich
The Cleveland Orchestra story:"second to none" by Donald Rosenberg
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