Name: Le nozze di Figaro
Start: 2012-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2012-08-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opera House

Organization

Basse

Vito Priante

Figaro

Soprano

Lydia Teuscher

Susanna

Sally Matthews

La Comtesse Almaviva

Baryton

Audun Iversen

Le Comte Almaviva

Andrew Shore

Bartolo

Ann Murray DBE

Marcellina

Mezzo-soprano

Isabel Leonard

Cherubino

Ténor

Alan Oke

Don Basilio

Nicholas Folwell

Antonio

Colin Judson

Don Curzio

Sarah Shafer

Barbarina

Direction d'orchestre

Robin Ticciati

Mise en scène

Michael Grandage

Décors

Christopher Oram

Lumières

Paule Constable

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Others

The Glyndebourne Chorus

Glyndebourne

italien

Le nozze di Figaro -  (Les Noces de Figaro)

Royaume-Uni

Opera House

Ebert Room

Lewes

Perhaps no opera is as closely and affectionately associated with a single opera house as Le Nozze di Figaro is with Glyndebourne. Michael Grandage's staging is no less than the seventh in the festival's history, and sets the opera in the sleazy Sixties. Directed by Robin Ticciati, the production was lauded for its "ideal pacing" and youthful cast (which includes "no weak link" and "looks gorgeous"—The Sunday Times), and continues Glyndebourne's rewarding explorations of Mozart and Da Ponte's "day of madness".

The story takes place on one incredible day in an upstairs-downstairs world populated by servants who are not servile and their easily-outsmarted masters. Figaro and Susanna are preparing for marriage, but before they can make it down the aisle, their plans are put in jeopardy by the Count Almaviva, who fancies Susanna so much that he wants to make her his lover. In a complicated and clever plan, the future newlyweds and their friends expose the Count's infidelity to his wife the Countess, teaching him a lesson he'll never forget.

Perhaps no opera is as closely and affectionately associated with a single opera house as Le Nozze di Figaro is with Glyndebourne. Effortlessly witty yet shot through with pain and sadness, this deeply ambivalent life in the day of masters and servants as they scheme and outwit one another was Glyndebourne’s opening production in 1934. Michael Grandage’s staging is the seventh, set in a louche Sixties ambience. Marshalled by the "ideal pacing" of Robin Ticciati, a youthful cast of principals has "no weak link" and "looks gorgeous" (The Sunday Times) in a production that continues Glyndebourne’s rewarding history of engagement with Mozart’s and da Ponte’s ‘day of madness’.

Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), 2012
Michael Grandage’s five-star production of Mozart’s greatest comedy.

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