Eric Smithey
Eric Smithey
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Back in Mozart's time it was very common to perform operas in all sorts of languages. His native tongue was German. The most common language to see opera in was Italian.
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We had some trepidation whether or not we wanted to do it because we had been in the mode of doing the other. Once we got into the very first rehearsal, it reminded us how good Mozart was, how funny and how relevant to today.