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A Festival Of Music
After having our ears assail-ed by screams and shouts which accompanied the Beatles while they were in New Zealand, the melodious voices of the Vienna Boys' Choir and the New Zealand Opera Company were like water to a desert castaway. The choir played to capacity houses at two performances in Nelson and the Opera Company delighted smaller houses with its presentation of Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte". The opera told the humorous tale of a wager made by two young men bound for war, that their two sweethearts would remain faithful while they were gone.
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Don Alfonso (Grant Dickson), Fiordiligi and Dorobella combine voices after the lovers had parted.
Beryl Dalley (as the maid and Don Alfonso's tool) and the two disguised lovers attempt to persuade the sorrowing girls of the noble character of the two men.
A scene featuring the chorus of brave soldiers preparing to leave for war.