Le nozze di Figaro
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Event location: Royal Opera House.
 Revolution is in the air in this Season's revival of David McVicar's wonderfully illuminating production of Le nozze di Figaro, new to The Royal Opera in 2006 to mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Life on an estate in the late 1820s reveals with truth and no little wit all the tensions between master and servants, with the symptoms of Europe's social upheaval never far away. Count Almaviva's attempts to bed his manservant Figaro's fiancé Susanna are repeatedly thwarted by those around him, including his own wife, the Countess. In such enlightened times if the Count wishes to dance, then Figaro will make sure it is to his tune and not the other way round.
Mozart's music makes this one of the finest jewels in the opera repertory, from the familiar first notes of the energetic Overture to Figaro's famous 'Non più andrai' and the genuine despair of the Countess at her husband's infidelity, revealed in 'Porgi, amor' and 'Dove sono'. All shades of emotion are portrayed through the solos, duets and ensembles, and for this revival the cast of singers is an exceptionally fine one to bring a Mozart masterpiece to full dramatic life.
Running time: 3 hours 30 minutes
Sung in Italian with English surtitles
CREDITS
Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Director
David McVicar
Designs
Tanya McCallin
Lighting
Paule Constable
Choreography
Leah Hausman
PERFORMERS
Conductor
David Syrus
Charles Mackerras
Figaro
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo
Susanna
Aleksandra Kurzak
Bartolo
Robert Lloyd
Marcellina
Ann Murray
Cherubino
Sophie Koch
Anna Bonitatibus
Count Almaviva
Peter Mattei
Don Basilio
Robin Leggate
Countess Almaviva
Barbara Frittoli
Antonio
Donald Maxwell
Don Curzio
Harry Nicoll
Barbarina
Kishani Jayasinghe*
* Jette Parker young Artist
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