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UNFINISHED and virtually unknown, Mozart’s opera “Zaide” arrived Wednesday night in a bizarrely modish production concept by Peter Sellars, providing a strange mixed blessing for the Mostly Mozart ...

The strongest bits of the unfinished opera are a few arias, notably “Ruhe sanft” – which has become a concert staple. Perhaps Mozart realised his great love aria would have to end up being incestuous ...

Mozart never finished “Zaide,” a music-theater piece with spoken dialogue. What has come down to us is a colorful, rather dark story about a sultan named Soliman, who loves his slave Zaide, who loves ...

The bare bones of Mozart’s unfinished opera Zaide comprise one glorious aria for the enslaved heroine – the aspirational “Ruhe sanft” – and an assortment of other numbers which might be considered ...

Usually, when the words “unfinished” and “Mozart” appear in the same sentence, people are talking about the “Requiem” the composer was working on when he died. Wolf Trap Opera has provided a welcome ...

In honor of the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth, his music is being performed around the globe. A controversial new production of an unfinished opera Mozart wrote when he was 23, ...

Sunday Miscellany: A.M. Cousins on volunteering for Zaide, starring a young Lesley Garrett - listen to Opera Nights above... Last week, in a fit of nostalgia for past festivals, I pulled out the old ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter How do you complete an unfinished Mozart opera? Or perhaps the first question should be, "Why complete an unfinished Mozart opera?" ...

Several attempts have been made to edit a viable performing version of Mozart's Zaide, but the opera is a bore. Rating: * * Zaide consists of two acts of an opera which Mozart began on spec and then ...