PAST: FILM: "The Marriage of Fiagro" Opera Film from Germany 1949 at The National Gallery of Art SAT, April 17th at 1:00pm, Free

Free Film Screening at the NGA
Figaros Hochzeit "The Marriage of Figaro"
Saturday, April 17th
1:00pm
Free

Presented by Washington National Opera in association with National Gallery of Art. Introduction by Harry Silverstein, Director of WNO's The Marriage of Figaro.

Film Description: The postwar German DEFA studio (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) produced a series of popular black-and-white opera films in the late 1940s at their Potsdam-Babelsberg facility. Figaros Hochzeit, the first of these, featured wonderfully showy sets and costumes. (Georg Wildhagen, 1949, 35 mm, German with subtitles, 109 minutes)

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