Evening star., 1940-12-27
Last Opera in Series
OF Recordings 10 Go
On Sale Tomorrow
Marriage Of Figaro
Brings All Of II
Works to Public

The final offering of The Stars
music appreciation compaign-"The
Marriage of Figaro" by the great
Austrian composer, Wolfgang Mo-
zart-will be made available to
music lovers tomorrow at the spe-
cial distribution booths in the lobby
of The Star Building, marking the
beginning of the 14th week of the
campaign.
Recorded for The Stars series by
world famous operate singers and
orchestras, The Marriage of
Figaro" will be made available in
condensed form on three Pinch
double-fac recordings.
With the release of this master
piece. all of the II operate works
included in The Stars program will
be available at the music apprecla-
ton booths The II symphonic
masterpieces added to the offer sew
eral weeks ago also will continue to
be available during the remainder
OF the campaign.
Opera Produced in 1856.
THE Marriage of Figaro" was first
produced at the National Theater
in Vienna in 1786, when Mozart was
only 80 years old The plot of the
music drama was adapted from
Beaunarchais' comedy, which had
attracted great attention. The En-
peror Joseph commissioned Mozart
to set it to music and the success
of the opera proved to be the COM
posers greatest triumph.
Born IN Salzburg, Austria, in 1855,
Mozart began writing music at the
age of 3, made his first appearance
in public as cborister in some
theatricals at the University of Salz-
burg when he was and had several
published compositions to his credit
when he was only years old.
Although he lived to be only IS
years old, Mozart left a myriad of
symphonic and operatic master
pieces to the world. The number of
separate published works ascribed
to him is 626, but he is also said to
have written 294 compositions, which
were either unfinished or unpub-
Ished.
Mozarts s powers steadily increased
as he grew older. 1t was during the
last year of his life that he wrote
three of his greatest compositions,
the opera Die Zauberflote," the
Requiem" and the opera La Gle
menza di Tito" the latter being
written for the coronation of Leo
pold II at Prague. Mozart died a
pauper on December 5, 1871.
AS recorded for The Stars pro-
gram, the opera is presented in six
parts. The records contain the
popular overture to the opera, the
duet, "Cinque- e-dieci-venti," from act
/, and the Che soave zeffiretto"
(What a Gentle ZEPHYR, Non piu
andrai" (No Longer Will You Flut-
teri, "Aprite, presto, aprite" (Open
the Door, "Deh vieni, non Tardar"
(Ah, Come. "Porgi, amor" Grant
Me, Love-, susanna, or via sortite"
Susanna, Come Out at Once),
Crude! Perche finor" Cruel One) +.
"Voi che sapete" (You LADIES', i,
"Aprite un po' quegli occhi' (Open
Your Eyes Little.
The II other operas now avail
able are Bizet's Carmen" Gounods
"Faust," Verdi's Aida" "Rigoletto"
and La Traviata"; Puccinis
'Madama Butterfly" and La Bo-
heme," Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" and
Wagner's 'Lohengrin," "Tannhaus-
er" and Tristan and Isolde
The symphonic works now avail
able include Tschaikowsky's Fourth
Symphony" and "Nutcracker Suite"
Beethovens Fifth and Eighth SYM
phonieS, Schubert's Unfinished
Symphony" Mozart's Symphony
No. 40 in G Minor" Bachs Bran
denburg Concertos Nos. and g."
Wagner's preludes to Die Meister-
singer" and "Parsifal," Debussy's
Afternoon of a Faun," Clouds"
and Festivals Haydn's Sym
phony No. SO in E Flat Major"
Brahms Second Symphony" and
Franck'S ID Minor SYMPHONY"