
Ep. 105 The Marriage of Figaro and Elly Uncomposed with Valerie Niemerg
Opera For Everyone
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Ellie and Composed by Mozart and DePonty
Mozart and DePonty were like the dynamic duo of opera writing Mozart and De Ponty that I think had sold it. And also, you know, it really represents that the people loved these plays. It was what they laughed about back then. This is not a tragedy. We don't have a dead soprano at the end. Nobody's jumping off the parrot, yes. But we listen to that now. We're like, this is very serious feminine issues. Yeah. Well, there are other things that they laughed at then also that are in this play that we don't think are funny at all now. So we kind of have that quandary
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