Ruth Leon recommends… Music for The Eyes – Garsington Opera

Music for The Eyes – Garsington Opera

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During lockdown, the innovative Garsington Opera made this series of performance/documentaries, examining operas through their other artisic connections. In this first episode, Music for the Eyes takes Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro as its focus, looking at the rise of the middle class, gardens and ambiguity in many works of 18th Century art.

These programmes look at opera side by side with visual art and literature to draw new connections between masterpieces. The series is presented by Garsington’s Johnny Langridge and art historian Dr Imogen Tedbury.

You can watch the Garsington production of Le Nozze di Figaro that provides the trigger for this documentary in full on Garsington’s YouTube channel.

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