Theatre of Music
-_- ARL NICOLAI’S comic opera, The Merry Wives of Windsor, is better known for its Overture than for the rest of the music, but listeners to Theatre of \Music on Saturday, April 20, will hear excerpts from this work. The singers are Maria Stader as Frau Fluth, Margarete Klose as Frau Reich, Kim Borg as Falstaff, and Eberhard Wachter as Herr Fluth. Ferdinand Leitner conducts. this performance. There are few German comic operas with more than national appeal, but Nicolai’s work has a universal audience. They respond to its fresh delightful melodies and its obvious association with Shakespeare’s amusing plot. The Merry Wives shows the influence of Nicolai’s years of work in Italy and the Italian operas he wrote there, although this opera was written two years after he became director of the Berlin Opera.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 922, 12 April 1957, Page 8
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137Theatre of Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 922, 12 April 1957, Page 8
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