There's no way around it: Everyone knows Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a righteous composer. He was born exactly 250 years ago in 1756, which makes this year what? Yeah that's right, the motherfuckin' bicenquinquagenary of his birth.
Mozart's work is being produced all over, and here on campus University Opera has been staging a few of his operas to celebrate.
Last month's staging of Don Giovanni,\ However, totally sucked a fat one. I mean, cutting Don Ottavio's aria ""Il Mio Tesoro?"" That is BALLS. 19th Century French composer Charles Gounod called it the ""unequalled and immortal masterpiece, that apogee of the lyrical drama."" As in, you DO NOT fuck with it!
Luckily, University Opera apparently has decided not to take a steaming crap on the entire standard operatic repertory, thanks to their bitchin' new staging of ""Die Zauberflöte.""
Casting a Wagnerian Soprano as the Queen of the Night instead of the customary Dramatic Coloratura? Straight. Up. AWESOME. And as for Sarastro, let's just say that your ass is grass, and his pounding basso profondo in the ""In Diesen Heil'gen Hallen"" aria is the lawnmower.
Yes, University Opera has got their shit back together with ""Die Zauberflöte."" Let's hope next month's production of Humperdinck's ""Hansel und Gretel"" is just as kick-ass.
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