{"id":6365,"date":"2013-04-19T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2013-04-19T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:59:04","slug":"the-ford-center-presents-the-merry-wives-of-windsor-419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-ford-center-presents-the-merry-wives-of-windsor-419\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ford Center Presents The Merry Wives of Windsor 4\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 22px;\"><b>UM Opera Theatre Ensemble<\/b> will present <strong><i>The Merry Wives of Windsor; A Comic Opera in Three Acts<\/i><\/strong> by <strong>Otto Nicolai<\/strong> at the <strong>Ford Center<\/strong> on Friday, April 19 at 8 pm, and Sunday, April 21 at 3 pm.\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Julia Aubrey<\/strong>, Director of Opera Theatre, invites all ages to an evening of delightful music and drama performed by the <strong>UM Opera Theatre Ensemble<\/strong> and supported by the <strong>L-O-U Orchestra<\/strong>. Based on Shakespeare\u2019s play, Otto Nicolai and <strong>Hermann von Mosenthal<\/strong> wrote the operatic version of <em>The Merry Wives of Windsor<\/em> to focus on the female characters. Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page concoct a humorous plot to punish the fat knight, Falstaff, for his audacity in wooing both the married women at the same time. The Ford\u2019s marriage is hampered by Mr. Ford\u2019s jealous rages and the women include his \u201ceducation\u201d as a byproduct of the comedy. The love story between Anne Page and Fenton, complicated by unsympathetic parents and two rivals, provide perfect subject matter for Nicolai\u2019s tuneful melodies. Disguises, a flurry of letters, a laundry basket, and a play-within-a-play create a light frolic for the characters and the audience. In the starring role as Falstaff is <strong>Dr. Bradley Robinson<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6411\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6411\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Merry Wives 3 (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Merry-Wives-3-11.jpg?resize=300%2C198\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Merry-Wives-3-11.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Merry-Wives-3-11.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Merry-Wives-3-11.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Merry-Wives-3-11.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Merry-Wives-3-11.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span><\/a> Characters: Dr. Brad Robinson, Falstaff; Tara Tanner as Mrs. Ford and Briana Raif as Mrs. Page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">This production combines the best of Shakespeare and opera beautifully produced by students and faculty of the Department of Music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">For tickets contact the UM Box Office at (662) 915-7411 or<a title=\" www.olemiss.edu\/depts\/tickets\" href=\" www.olemiss.edu\/depts\/tickets\"> www.olemiss.edu\/depts\/tickets<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UM Opera Theatre Ensemble will present The Merry Wives of Windsor; A Comic Opera in Three Acts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}