The three operas that Mozart wrote to librettos by Lorenzo Da Ponte are unique, not just in the history of opera but of all musical theater. Couched in the traditional form of opera buffa (Italian comic opera), these masterworks combine the comic with the tragic, explore the gamut of human emotion and delineate each character both in Da Ponte's words and the musical language Mozart has created for them. "The Marriage…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM on November 5, 2015