{"id":102,"date":"2016-12-08T14:15:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/?p=102"},"modified":"2016-12-08T14:15:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:15:49","slug":"mozarts-le-nozze-di-figaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/2016\/12\/08\/mozarts-le-nozze-di-figaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozart\u2019s Le Nozze di Figaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Musical numbers in the Illinois Wesleyan Opera Theatre production of Mozart\u2019s Le Nozze di Figaro (\u201cThe Marriage of Figaro\u201d) featured the Illinois Wesleyan Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble similar in size and make-up to the orchestra for which Mozart composed. \u201cBefore this revolutionary work, orchestras often tagged along with singers. Here, text and music merge into an organic whole,\u201d Nancy Steele Brokaw \u201971 wrote in the production\u2019s program notes. Performers included (from left): Kelsey Maka \u201918 as Countess Almaviva, Celia Williams \u201917 (Susanna), John McHugh \u201917 (Figaro), and Sara Caligiuri \u201918 (Marcellina).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/files\/2016\/12\/6.-opera-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"6-opera\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/files\/2016\/12\/6.-opera-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/files\/2016\/12\/6.-opera.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Photo by Crystal Muro \u201919)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musical numbers in the Illinois Wesleyan Opera Theatre production of Mozart\u2019s Le Nozze di Figaro (\u201cThe Marriage of Figaro\u201d) featured the Illinois Wesleyan Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble similar in size and make-up to the orchestra for which Mozart composed. \u201cBefore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/2016\/12\/08\/mozarts-le-nozze-di-figaro\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}