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Show -lJ : i "sr ssndl 4i M If fT J icu . , JCoinedy at Campus: lllosarri Gayest' Mr romedy-bubbling with-the gaiety and RoT, Treat wmposer felt for his intended bride S ;vethr university Little Theater for six nights. vS ' Theater, the Music Department 5 r! 5 workshop are collaborating on . n SdJtion 'from the Seraglio" gayest of Moz- S!iKaVreEdnglish Monday through Satur-I? Satur-I? day at 8:30 pi in the Little Theater of Pioneer " ttfwascarrying out a commission from "i lost a EfflPeror Joseph 11 Whe" he ,compOSed I -but the young genius' own love was the 4 op 'ration for it, observed David Morgan, dramatic '1 director of the University production. "THE HEROINE of the show is Constanza erne given name as that of the Vienna maiden 4art was anxiously seeking his father's consent j. marry and year later did marry," he said. fe The noted opera scholar Ernest Newman has 't' emphasized that "Seraglio" has a warm "romantic u ,iow" that Mozart could have projected at no other l; : time in his life. 6 "Mankind was entitled to expect from him j several more operas like 'Figaro' and 'Don Gio- 1 1 vann.i;' but with the best will in the world he ' t could never have written another "Seraglio,' " he observed. "There is not a single dull number from start to finish!" James Cowan, tenor, and JoAnn South Ottley, ft soprano, sing the romantic leads Belmonte and () i' testanza. WLU . PYMM CHARTRAND and Val. J. Stuart enjoy a scene in "Abduction from the Seraglio," a Mozart opera. |