berry@zinfandel.UUCP (04/09/84)
#R:nsc:-80100:zinfandel:8500026:000:659 zinfandel!berry Apr 4 12:54:00 1984 At the Mostly Mozart Festival in San Francisco last month, Prof. Schickele said that there would be the premier of the first full-length P.D.Q. Bach opera this spring in, I think, Minneapolis. True, previous operatic works have been recorded, but 'The Stoned Guest' is only a half-act opera, and 'Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice' is an opera in one unnatural act. 'The Civilian Barber' apparently is lost; all that survives is a suite, and the 'Peruckenstucke' or hair-piece. The new opera is called 'The Abduction of Figaro' and is billed as being a 'simply GRAND opera'. Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900