- Giles Swayne
Le nozze di Cherubino (1984)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
First act commissioned by the Birmingham School of Music
- continuo (2 Hpd/vc.cb)
- 12 singers (5S, MZ, 2T, 2Bar, 2B)
- 1 hr 50 min
- Giles Swayne
- Italian
Programme Note
An homage to Mozart and Da Ponte, the opera picks up the action about three years after the end of Figaro, at the moment when Cherubino (still played by a girl) returns from his military service and arrives back at the castle of Count Almaviva.
Scores
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