Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Conductor

Alexandre Bloch

Stage director

Olivier Assayas

Set designer

Magda Willi

Costume designer

Anaïs Romand

Lighting designer

Carsten Sander

Video designer

Benjamin Warshawski

Artistic collaboration

Sybille Wilson

Choreographer

Daphné Mauger

Chorus master

Benedict Kearns

Singer

Baritone

John Chest

The Count of Almaviva

Soprano

Mandy Fredrich

The Countess of Almaviva

Elbenita Kajtazi

Susanna

Bass

Piotr Micinski

Bartolo

Tenor

Francesco Pittari

Basilio

Giulia Scopelliti

Barbarina

Pete Thanapat

Antonio

Robert Lewis

Don Curzio

Gordon Bintner

Figaro

Mezzo-soprano

Thandiswa Mpongwana

Cherubino

Sophie Pondjiclis

Marcelline

Maki Nakanishi

First bridesmaid

Karine Motyka

Second bridesmaid

Eugen Jebeleanu

Benjamin Krieg

Alexander Miminoshvili

Bayerische Staatsoper

Opéra de Lyon

Others

Lyon Opera Choirs

Orchestra

Lyon Opera Orchestra

Soloists of the Lyon Opera Studio

Italian

Le nozze di Figaro -  (The Marriage of Figaro)

Lyon

France

Opéra Nouvel de Lyon

Le nozze di Figaro Mozart

Public

Private

The Marriage of Figaro

French

Approved

Le Mariage de Figaro contrarie Louis XVI, c’est compréhensible : le monde qui vient, celui des valets, y questionne un peu trop vigoureusement le monde des maîtres dont le pouvoir vacille.
Beaumarchais ronge son frein trois ans avant de voir la création de sa pièce en 1784. C’est un triomphe européen.
Mozart, enthousiaste, propose à Lorenzo Da Ponte d’en faire un opéra. C’est leur première collaboration. L’Empereur exige quelques coupures. À la création le 1er mai 1786, la noblesse locale est mitigée, l’œuvre triomphe partout ailleurs.
Olivier Assayas, cinéaste amoureux de la musique, souligne « la vertigineuse humanité dont irradie la musique de Mozart, que la grâce ne quitte pas un instant. » Il voit dans l’œuvre la fin d’un monde dépassé, submergé et rendu à l’état sauvage par la poussée de la nature, destruction nécessaire et promesse d’avenir d’un monde nouveau. Ce sera sa première mise en scène d’opéra.

français

The Marriage of Figaro annoys Louis XVI, it is understandable: the world that comes, that of the servants, questions a little too vigorously the world of the masters whose power wavers.
Beaumarchais was chomping at the bit three years before seeing the creation of his piece in 1784. It was a European triumph.
Mozart, enthusiastic, offers Lorenzo Da Ponte to make an opera. This is their first collaboration. The Emperor demands a few cuts. When it was created on May 1, 1786, the local nobility was mixed, the work triumphed everywhere else.
Olivier Assayas, filmmaker in love with music, emphasizes “the dizzying humanity radiating from Mozart’s music, which grace does not leave for a moment. He sees in the work the end of a world that has been overcome, submerged and returned to a wild state by the pressure of nature, a necessary destruction and the promise of the future of a new world. This will be his first opera production.

English

The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, From (2023/2023), Directed by Olivier Assayas, Eugen Jebeleanu,, Conductor Alexandre Bloch, Opéra Nouvel de Lyon, Lyon, France

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