Klarinet Archive - Posting 001083.txt from 1999/12

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Marriage of Figaro last night
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 07:55:48 -0500

> John Gates wrote:
>
> I saw a wonderful performance on Le Nozze di Figaro last nite on TV.
> It was a broadcast from a Met opera production. But I have a
> question. In the fourth act instead of performing Susanna's "Garden"
> Aria they substituted another aria with basset horns and, I believe,
> clarinets. It was quite a performance, Cecilia Bartoli played
> Susanna.
>
> Does anybody know about this substituted aria, did Mozart write it to
> replace the Garden Aria ?
>
> Thanks, John Gates
>
The aria is named "Al desio" and it calls for a pair of basset horns,
the second of which has a most difficult and important part. It also
has a separate K. listing (K. 588) from the rest of Figaro. The
aria was added a few years after the opera's premiere at the request
of the woman who was singing Susanna. It is extremely rare, and until
that Met production, I had never seen the aria in context although I
played it many times.

What is it that you want to know about it?
Dan Leeson
leeson0@-----.net

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