UGA Opera Theatre presents “La finta giardiniera”

(The pretend gardener)
One of W. A. Mozart’s first operas!
Conducted by returning British Guest Conductor, Hilary Griffiths
Directed by Daniel Ellis
February 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m.
February 23 at 3 p.m.
UGA Fine Arts Theatre, 255 Baldwin St

UGA Opera Theatre returns to the Fine Arts Theatre Building for this fully-staged performance! Confusion is in full bloom at a small-town mayor’s estate near Milan, where Violante and her servant are disguised as gardeners to hide from her ex-boyfriend, Belfiore.  Chaos reigns among several would-be couples in this somewhat surreal romp of requited and unrequited love.  Enjoy wonderful music and imagination from an 18-year-old Mozart in a precursor to Le Nozze di Figaro. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.