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Country Matters
Mozart must have been precocious in country matters as well as music because otherwise he could never have written La Finta Giadiniera in 1774, when he was 18. It's a romp of concupiscence, longing and betrayal, set in various vineyards, flower beds and canapes before the purifying flames of hell uplift the lust-lorn unto the Platonic ideal of love and harmony. The music is sublimely beautiful and foreshadows almost every opera Mozart ever wrote, which might explain why it is hardly ever performed. This production indulged in as much over-wrought opera buffa stage business and mugging as could be squeezed in which at times had the same effect as dressing the Venus de Milo in a frilly print frock but it was all very suitable for a beer hall, so Mozart would have loved it.
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