What's In a Name?
HE oddest statement of the week occurred in an excellent 4YC World of Opera programme devoted to excerpts from The Marriage of Figaro. "To prevent one from taking this music too seriously," the announcer read, "one should remember that in its day, The Marriage of Figaro was just the latest musical comedy." While concurring fervently with the suggestion that musical comedy is hardly, a matter to take "seriously," my mind boggled at the implied connection between (say) Kiss Me, Kate, and Mozart. I dismissed the matter and settled down to half an hour’s extremely pleasant listening; but the question returned to haunt me: what was the connection in that script-writer’s mind, and why, for that matter, not take The Marriage of Figaro seriously?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 10
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128What's In a Name? New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 10
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