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THESE TWO operas offered an excellent chance to compare Haydn and Mozart as opera composers, and to highlight the difference between farce and comedy - between Monsieur Hulot and Rene Clair.
Between Haydn's first Act (rooted firmly on the ground) and his second ("the moon"), he himself changes gear between the two genres. This production, reworked from the 1991 version by Michael McCaffery, with witty designs by Paul Edwards, moves into farce with an account of life on the moon exactly as an idiot like Buonfede would expect to find it.
Philip Salmon appears as a Darth Vadar Emperor,...