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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1985- THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- It was fine night for Mozart at Murat Theater 3 ArtsLeisure It was a grand night for opera, and for Mozart, at the Mural Theater Friday. A nearopacity audience was there to hear the first of two performances of a Mozart comedy master piece, the Marriage of Figaro, by a mixed company of itinerant players -vY Lively vn Arts Dream, a PBS documentary that starred Ed Asner. He is a dramaturge for the New York University dramatic writing program. Music in churches The Musicians of the Cloister, directed by David Urness, will continue its series of Bach concerts in Trinity Church, 33rd and Meridian streets, at 4 p.m. Sunday.

Soloists will include concertmaster Sherban Lupu. violin; flutists Anne Reynolds and Suzanne Farley, members of the ensemble, and guest flutist James Brine. Admission is free. The series is underwitten by a gift from the Eli Lilly estate. Dr.

Larry Smith, chairman of the Indiana University organ department, will play a recital at 8 m. Sunday in the sanctuary of the Second Presbyterian Church, 7700 North Meridian Street The public is invited. A free will offering will be taken. John Davies (left) and Robert Orth in Indianapolis Opera's of Figaro at the Murat Theatre. A p.m.

informal hour and 6 m. dinner. Excerpts from the CTS Repertory Theatre production of I Do! I Do! will be given Sunday by Gary Bcplay and Marilyn Kennedy as the finale of the Christian Theological Seminary's Festival of Marriage V. They starred in the musical, which opened the CTS Repertory season last fall. Michel Lethiec will be soloist in Rossini's Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra and Ronald Nobles in the Boccherini Concerto for Cello and Orchestra when the Carmel Symphony plays at 3 p.m.

Sunday in Carmel United Methodist Church. 621 Rangeline Road. The Enchanted Hills Playhouse, summer theater at Syracuse, Ind will hold auditions for salaried but non-equity positions as part of the statewide Indiana Theater League auditions from 8:30 a.m. to p.m. Sunday at Indiana Central University.

Wabash premiere The Wabash College Theater Department is celebrating a world premiere this week. The play is David Cohen's Baby Grand, winner of the college's 1984 playwriting competition. The last performance will be given at 8 p.m. tonight in Ball Theater, Crawfordsville. The play, selected from 240 entries, "deals with the abusive relationship (both psychological and physical) of two Jewish brothers, centering on the younger's attempt to escape from the influence of the older through music and the assistance of a young female piano teacher." Cohen's previous works include the 1977 Broadway production of Piaf a Remembrance; off Broadway productions of Tanglewood and Friends Indeed, and The Incredible For reporter Malcolm Anderson, it's the story of a lifetime.

tfjr But getting it could cost him his career. And her life. KurtRusse3 THE MEAN SEASON By CORBIN PATRICK and domestic talent under the auspices of Indianapolis Opera. The second performance will be given, same place, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Mozart stock may have risen on the strength of the exposure his music has received in the current prize movie, Amadous, and certainly the weather, despite a light rain, was favorable to opera-going Friday night But the fact is that Figaro drew almost as well as that most spectacular of grand operas, Ada, which opened the 10 season at Clowes Hall in November. It's a commendable production, directed by Robert B. Driver, with a cast of versatile young singing actors. While it's not the kind of singing that stops the show with cheers and shouts of bravo, the voices are generally excellent and one, at least, is outstanding, that of Adriana Van-elli, a luscious, ample, soprano, who is the occasion's Countess Almaviva. Figaro is a work of delicate balances that does not travel well and that is best presented in a more intimate setting.

But most of the company had the advantage of performances at the Opera Theater of Syracuse two weeks ago. The problem of merging the incoming group with the local contingent was not as great as it was in Aida, in which the large chorus plays a very dramatic role. In Figaro, the townspeople, peasants, etc. are needed only for the sparkling a vivid bit as Antonio, the gardner. The production is attractively mounted in a reversible set representing rooms in a 17th century palace.

The orchestra of ISO musicians gives a stylish performance of the Mozart score under James Car-aher's direction. Weekend affairs George Thorn, formerly Clowes Hall New York representative, now professor of arts administration at Virginia Polytechnic, will conduct an all-day conference with Midsummer Mime Theatre's board of directors at the Indianapolis Athletic Club today. New York actress Ruby Dee will be here Sunday to star in the 16th annual Soul Dinner Theater Week End of Holy Angels Model School in the Madame Walker Urban Life Center. Miss Dee, star of Purlie Victorious, will appear following a 5 A time between summer murder. finales in each of the opera's four acts.

The plot is mainly a concerted effort to get Figaro, the Count's valet, married to Susanna, the Countess' maid, before she can be seduced by the flirtatious Count, exercising the ancient droit du sig-neur. It was considered quite scandalous in Mozart's day because it made heroes of servants and did not show the proper respect for members of the aristocracy. Anyway, the action is quite farcical, and the count is put in the position of making love to his own wife, under the impression that she is Susanna. It's lively with delicious arias, duets and ensembles, although we had forgotten how much recitative there is for plot movement in Figaro. John Davies, who is well known to 10 audiences, is a cunning Figaro and Amy Burton is pert and charming as Susanna.

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