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A Moments of Change musical event

The Penn State School of Music
and
the Institute for the Arts and Humanities

present

PENN STATE OPERA THEATRE

MOZART’S THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO

Ted Christopher, artistic director
Assistant Professor of Music

Beverly Patton, musical director
Associate Professor of Music

Two performances

Friday, March 19, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010

8:00 p.m.
State Theatre
130 W. College Ave.
State College, PA

Tickets: $18 Adult/$6 Students
http://www.statetickets.org

Purchase 15 or more tickets to receive a 10% discount on the total sale (both general and student admission).

Considered to be one of the greatest operas ever written, Le Nozze di Figaro features Mozart’s most delightful and youthful score. Based on the play by Pierre-Augustine Caron de Beaumarchais that scandalized pre-revolutionary France, the opera tells the story of Figaro, the valet to Count Almaviva, and his approaching nuptials with Susanna, the chambermaid to the Countess. Troubles come at them from every direction - from the Count’s gossipy music teacher, Basilio, from the dotty and snobbish elderly couple, Bartolo and Marcellina, from the perpetually tipsy gardener, Antonio, and from the count himself. Much conflict, some confusion, occasional hilarity, and intermittent heartbreak result, until the plot is resolved and all is made right.

This fully staged performance is sung in English and is arranged in an inventive orchestral reduction for woodwind quintet and piano.

For more information on the 2009/10 Institute for the Arts and Humanities Moments of Change program,
please call 814-865-0495 or visit http://www.moc.iah.psu.edu
Reserved Tickets for this performance are available at the ReMaxx Box Office at State Theatre. Phone: 814-272-0606 | Fax: 814-272-0607 | Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or online at http://www.thestatetheatre.org/Events. Prices: $18 adult/$6 student

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COST:

$18 adult/$6 student

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