UCI Opera: The Impresario

Meet Frank, a producer, who must put together a company of actors and singers while dealing with their whims, rivalries and pretensions. The singers and actors learn that art can thrive only through the peaceable cooperation of all their strengths.Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario), K. 486, is regarded as a parody on the vanity of singers, who argue over status and pay. Mozart described his singspiel as "comedy with music". The work was writ...