Sunday Feature: Andrew Cuk on directing The Marriage of Figaro
"The History of Opera in Four Acts"by Andrew Cuk (production photos by Dario Ayala)Act I: Operatic First Contact(The men's room in the Bardi Palace in Florence, Italy, in 1596.)PERI: Ottavio, it's so many years since the group met. We had some good times, did we not?RINUCCINI: How we laughed. Remember we all poked fun at Vincenzo's obsession with that mathematical son of his. Swinging chandeliers indeed. Now the man …