During the concert I attended they performed acts from Stephen Sondheim’s works, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim is a composer and lyricist who was born in New York in 1930. He has won numerous awards: Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom.2
A Little Night Music is a Broadway play based on a 1955 classical film called Smiles of a Summer Night. The play is about happily remarried lawyer, Fredrik Egerman, and his 18 year old bride. The only issue with his new wife is that after 11 months the marriage is left unconsummated. Unsatisfied, Fredrik seeks a past lover, Desiree Armfeldt. Despite Fredrik’s marriage, they rekindle …show more content…
Sweeny Todd is a barber/ serial killer who returns to London after 15 years of exile for his crimes. He conspires with a local baker, Mrs. Lovett, to get a lethal revenge on the corrupt judge who banished him.3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an Australian composer who shaped classical music. He is known for composing operas, string quartets, piano concertos, symphonies and mastering them all. Mozart was born in 1756, and was able to perform multiple instruments at the age of 6. He was a child prodigy, he was able to write a symphony at the age of eight; at age eleven an oratorio, and at age of twelve he wrote an opera. He unfortunately died at the age of 35.4 The works Mozart were performed at the concert I attended were Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) and Cosi fan tutte.
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is an opera that was first performed in 1786. The opera was based on Beaumarchais’s 1784 play La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro. The Marriage of Figaro is about the Count who just married Rosine. Their marriage has turned sour because of the Count’s unfaithfulness to Rosine. The Count has his eyes set on Suzanne, their maid. Suzanne is engaged to Figaro, a retired barber, who now is the Count’s
A Little Night Music is a Broadway play based on a 1955 classical film called Smiles of a Summer Night. The play is about happily remarried lawyer, Fredrik Egerman, and his 18 year old bride. The only issue with his new wife is that after 11 months the marriage is left unconsummated. Unsatisfied, Fredrik seeks a past lover, Desiree Armfeldt. Despite Fredrik’s marriage, they rekindle …show more content…
Sweeny Todd is a barber/ serial killer who returns to London after 15 years of exile for his crimes. He conspires with a local baker, Mrs. Lovett, to get a lethal revenge on the corrupt judge who banished him.3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an Australian composer who shaped classical music. He is known for composing operas, string quartets, piano concertos, symphonies and mastering them all. Mozart was born in 1756, and was able to perform multiple instruments at the age of 6. He was a child prodigy, he was able to write a symphony at the age of eight; at age eleven an oratorio, and at age of twelve he wrote an opera. He unfortunately died at the age of 35.4 The works Mozart were performed at the concert I attended were Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) and Cosi fan tutte.
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is an opera that was first performed in 1786. The opera was based on Beaumarchais’s 1784 play La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro. The Marriage of Figaro is about the Count who just married Rosine. Their marriage has turned sour because of the Count’s unfaithfulness to Rosine. The Count has his eyes set on Suzanne, their maid. Suzanne is engaged to Figaro, a retired barber, who now is the Count’s