{"id":35530,"date":"2015-03-27T08:39:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=35530"},"modified":"2015-03-27T09:06:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T16:06:04","slug":"nau-opera-presents-the-marriage-of-figaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-opera-presents-the-marriage-of-figaro\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Opera presents &#8216;The Marriage of Figaro&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU Opera presents four performances of Mozart\u2019s <em>The Marriage of Figaro<\/em> April 3 &#8211; 5 in Ardrey Auditorium. The opera will be performed in Italian with English surtitles.<\/p>\n<p>The April 5 show will be the last NAU performance for <strong>Nando Schellen<\/strong>, who is retiring after 15 years as the university\u2019s director of opera. Before coming to the United States, Schellen directed dozens of operas throughout Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Schellen calls\u00a0<em>The Marriage of Figaro <\/em>one of the most popular works in the world of opera.\u201cOur talented young singers have developed a passion for this piece,\u201d Schellen said. \u201cMozart really seduces his performers to special action in his operas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. April 3 and 4 and at 2 p.m. April 5, with Schellen leading lectures 45 minutes before each performance.<\/p>\n<p>Members of\u00a0<em>The Marriage of Figaro\u00a0<\/em>cast also will present an extra semi-staged performance in concert at 2 p.m. April 12 at the Church of the Red Rocks in Sedona.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets to the NAU performances call the Central Ticket Office at (928) 523-5661 or visit nau.edu\/cto. For tickets in Sedona call the Church of the Red Rocks in Sedona at (928) 282-7963.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-opera-presents-the-marriage-of-figaro\/\">NAU Opera presents four performances of Mozart\u2019s The Marriage of Figaro April 3 &#8211; 5 in Ardrey Auditorium. The opera will be performed in Italian with English surtitles. The April 5 show will be the last NAU performance for Nando Schellen, who is retiring after 15 years as the university\u2019s director of opera. Before coming&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":35533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}