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Erwin Schrott

Figaro

Soprano

Anita Hartig

Susanna

Sophie Bevan

Baritone

Stéphane Degout

The Count of Almaviva

Ellie Dehn

The Countess of Almaviva

Mezzo-soprano

Kate Lindsey

Cherubino

Carlo Lepore

Bartolo

Tenor

Krystian Adam

Basilio

Ann Murray DBE

Marcelline

Louise Winter

Alasdair Elliott

Don Curzio

Jeremy White

Antonio

Heather Engebretson

Barbarina

Robyn Allegra Parton

Conductor

Christopher Willis

Stage director

David McVicar

Set designer

Tanya McCallin

Assistant Director

Greg Eldridge

Royal Opera House

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Le nozze di Figaro -  (The Marriage of Figaro)

London

United Kingdom

The Marriage of Figaro

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Bartolo Carlo Lepore

Revolution is in the air in David McVicar’s production of Mozart’s brilliant comic opera The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), starring Erwin Schrott ...

The Marriage of Figaro trailer | The Royal Opera

Conductor Ivor Bolton discusses the key musical moments in David McVicar's The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro). Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/le-...


Le nozze di Figaro was the first fruit of Mozart’s partnership with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte; they would go on to create Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. For Figaro, Da Ponte adapted (perhaps at Mozart’s suggestion) Pierre Beaumarchais’ controversial play Le Mariage de Figaro, which at the time was banned in Vienna due to its seditious content. The opera was well received in Vienna but had only nine performances; its revival soon after in Prague was a tremendous success, and led to the commission of Don Giovanni. Figaro quickly entered the international repertory and has rarely been out of it since, admired as one of Mozart’s finest works.

David McVicar’s acclaimed production sets the action in a French château in 1830 on the eve of revolution, amplifying the opera’s undercurrents of class tension. The entire household is drawn into the notoriously complex plot, which covers all shades of human emotion: from spirited playfulness (such as ‘Non più andrai’, when Figaro cheerfully sends Cherubino off to war), to deep despair (such as the Countess’s grief at her husband’s infidelity in ‘Dove sono i bei momenti’). But affection and fidelity prevail in this most warm-hearted of operas: the Count’s plea for forgiveness in the final act, ‘Contessa, perdono’, is an especially moving moment.

Ivor Bolton explores the music of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (The Royal Opera)

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