Value Added: Musical gifts

Since its 1786 debut performance in Vienna, Austria, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro has been performed countless times around the world. It’s a big production. A full three hours in length, it’s an energetic recounting of servants Figaro and Susanna’s wedding day, humorously complicated by the licentious interest of Figaro’s aristocratic employer in the bride-to-be…

Learn how a local man’s philanthropy helped bring The Marriage of Figaro to the Maxwell Theatre’s stage on The Fine Print, the online home of A., Augusta University’s alumni magazine.