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Happy Hour No. 20: Vid Guerrerio, Librettist

Who would have the gall to take a red pen to The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, and Don Giovanni?Put another way: wouldn’t you want a makeover after 300 years?

Leaving Mozart’s music completely untouched, librettist Vid Guerrerio updated the plots of all three members of Mozart’s operatic Holy Trinity. His English, modernized adaptations reveal Mozart’s true intent in a way that layers of dusty tradition obscure.

Join us for before-and-afters of Vid’s delightful Mozartian makeovers, plus fascinating and provocative conversation about what “timelessness” really means.