AN OPERATIC WORK BY A TEENAGE GENIUS

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Eastman Opera Theatre begins its 2006-2007 season with an opera by an up-coming young composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who wrote his romantic comedy La finta giardiniera (The Disguised Garden Girl) in 1775, when he was only 19. While it had a successful premiere in Munich, Germany, the work has seldom been performed in the…