Post #100 - Mozart Madness - Week One starts Jan. 17th - featuring Apollo et Hyacinth Tuesday, January 17th 2006

UPDATE: Thanks for listening - no CD issues this week, although my on-air patter was quite off - nothing like getting an annoucement that an acquaintance has had a heart attack JUST AS I WAS POTTING UP THE MICROPHONE to speak.

NEXT WEEK: La Finta Semplice.

What better way to mark a centenary post than with Mozart?
Just a reminder that What's Opera, Doc starts its all-Mozart programming this week.
All the operas.
Thats right - ALL of them.
In the order they were written.
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Mark your calendars - Mozart Madness - Week One starts Jan. 17th - featuring Apollo et Hyacinth Tuesday, January 17th 2006 marks the first week of some adventurous programming on What's Opera, Doc?.
I will be playing all of Mozart's operas in the order they were written to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the year of his birth.
The first selection will be Apollo et Hyacinth, which Mozart wrote when he was 11 years old.Apollo and Hyacinth, or the Metamorphosis of Hyacinth.

The Latin intermezzo Apollo et Hyacinthus was composed for the Latin school play Clementia Croesi by Father Rufinus Widl*
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 38*
Librettist: Father Rufinus Widl*
First performance: Great Hall, Salzburg University, 13 May 1767

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This performance features: Arleen Auger, Jean-Pierre Faber, Cornelius Hermann, Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Conducted by Leopold Hager.

Link to the libretto HERE.