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What is Piedmont Opera?

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Our Mission, Vision and Values ​ Our Mission is to create operatic productions of the highest artistic quality to enrich our community and to advance the art form. Our Vision is to be the finest opera company of our size in the nation and acknowledged as the best at what we do.

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Who wrote 'The Marriage of Figaro?'

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The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro], is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"). It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity. Considered one of the greatest operas ever written, it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas. In 2017, BBC News Magazine asked 172 opera singers to vote for the best operas ever written. The Marriage of Figaro came in first out of the 20 operas featured, with the magazine describing the work as being "one of the supreme masterpieces of operatic comedy, whose rich sense of humanity shines out of Mozart’s miraculous score".

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High Point has an opera?

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Yes! We are Piedmont Opera and we are excited to bring professional opera to your community!

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I want tickets to see the opera!

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We are thrilled to have you attend the wedding of the season! Tickets are available at PiedmontOpera.org. For a more personal experience, call our box office at 336.725.7101.

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Is there a dress code?

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No. You will see everything at the opera and we welcome everyone!