The French evolution. (Front and Center: Minneapolis).(Mozart's Marriage of Figaro)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, May, 2003 by Weisman, Wendy
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CLOWNING AROUND MAY BE ONE OF their specialties, but lately the ensemble at Minneapolis's Theatre de la Jeune Lune has become quite passionate about the merits of melancholy. For the company's upcoming take on Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (running May 23-June 29), director Dominique Serrand is summoning the spirit of Beaumarchais--the opera's original source--in order to illuminate the darker themes lurking beneath the opera buffa veneer of disguises, charades and trysts.
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"The tragic elements are part of the structure," asserts Serrand, explaining that, while the ...
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