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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the music for Figaro only a few years before his death in 1791, and it was produced in Austria just about a year prior to the outbreak of the French revolution in 1789. One thinks of the opera as Mozart's, despite the collaboration of a lesser dramatist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, who wrote the libretto upon which the music is based. The story of Figaro was well known in Mozart's day and had been presented on numerous occasions,under various authorships,and mainly as drama. Indeed, two years earlier Beaumarchais had written and produced such a play in Paris, only to have its further presentation there immediately banned. Officials of the dying ancien regime in France were fearful of the play's revolutionary im- plications:(1) that a member of the nobility could be depicted as an indecent fellow,(2) that his lech erous intentions toward an attractive young--and we are given to understand,virginal--servant girl could be exposed,and(3) that he could be publicly both thwarted and ridiculed in his attempt at sed- uction and by members of his household of servants with the connivance of his wife. Da Ponte and Moz- art adapted their opera from the play by Beaumarch- ais, and its story--complicated by an absurd maze of subplots--is essentially as I have described it. Today, the opera is to be enjoyed as a light comedy whose music is appropriately light in its texture yet incredibly and unremittingly beautiful. What one sees and hears in the production at St- ratford is enhanced by superb overall direction. Stage and costume designs are exquisite, and the choreography is a pleasure to behold. The singers can act, and in this way they support each other; those who should be handsome are. Fortunately too, the musical direction is of high quality; the en- semble singing alone is wonderful. One is espec- ially grateful for fresh young voices and except- ionally clear diction. If the purist is jarred at first by the English translation, he must be grate- ful for the obvious and ready response of a North American audience, which seems to be enjoying it- self hugely by virtue of its ability to understand and appreciate what is going on. The purist may ob- ject also to the agularity of Maestro Bernardi's overture, in which the delicacy and integrity of Mozartian phrasing are sacrificed at times to ach- ieve what appears to be a kind of hoped-for contras t effect. But the result is more mechanical and less musical than it need be. And,the purist may wince slightly at gratuitous,though rare,flcutisms” in the ornamentation of arias, especially by the female singers.But these distractions are minor and are more than offset by the positive qualities of a brilliant production. Finally, I should like to comment briefly on the excellence of the renovated theatre as a vehicle, for such a production as this. Except for an unfort unate masking effect that the orchestra exercises upon those seated in the first few rows--and that is a remediable architectural blunder--the acoust- ics appear to be excellent. Inside, the Avon thea- tre has the pleasing decor and intimacy of a Europ- ean concert hall or repertory theatre building,and these things add greatly to one's appreciation of a fine performance. By contrast, the poor acoustics, exacerbated by the occasionally sloppy and overly- rapid diction of the players, in the Festival Thea- tre are inexcusably bad--all the more so because such defects also are remediable. In fine,I liked the opera and its production the other night. You will,too, I think, if you are one for whom good music and good theatre have charms. You have until August 28 to find out for yourself whether my verdict is one with which you can agree. igalliirth Vatirtin Published Every Thursday at BoyfieItl, Ontario by ART ELLIOTT PUBLISHING LTD. Authorised by the Post Office Department as Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in cash Subscription Rate: One Year, $4.00; Six Months, $2 25, In advance U.S.A., 95.00 per year; Foreign rata, $5.00 per year Advertising Rates on application Art Elliott Audrey Bellchamber Editor & Publisher Socoil Editor Louisa Si. P.O. Box 94 Bayfiold Phone 96