The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, fim 30 sep 2021, Frá (2021/2022), Leikstýrt af Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Grischa Asagaroff,, Hljómsveitarstjóri Adam Fischer, Antonello Manacorda, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte's collaboration is one of the great strokes of luck in cultural history. They chose Beaumarchais' comedy The Marriage of Figaro as the basis for their first opera together , the centerpiece of a drama trilogy that had become a scandal in France. Therefore, while they concealed the revolutionary explosive force of the material, they delved all the more deeply into the inner life of the characters and gave the gender relations a meaning that went far beyond the original. Two plot lines intersect: Count Almaviva's attempt to make his lover Susanna, the fiancée of his valet Figaro, and the Countess' efforts to win back the love of her unfaithful husband. Could himself Le nozze di Figaroafter its premiere at the old Burgtheater in Vienna in 1786, the work is undoubtedly one of the most frequently performed operas in the world today.