Name: The Ghosts of Versailles
Start: 1992-01-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1992-01-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Conductor

James Levine

Singer

Soprano

Teresa Stratas

Marie Antoinette

Mezzo-soprano

Renée Fleming

Rosina

Marilyn Horne

Samira

Tenor

Graham Clark

Begearss

Baritone

Gino Quilico

Figaro

Håkan Hagegård

Beaumarchais

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

The Ghosts of Versailles

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One possible sequel is told in John Corigliano’s “grand opera buffa” The Ghosts of Versailles—an uproariously funny and deeply moving work inspired by Beaumarchais’s third Figaro play, La Mère Coupable, and commissioned by the Met to celebrate its 100th anniversary. This telecast captures its world premiere run, conducted by James Levine. Håkan Hagegård is Beaumarchais, Figaro’s creator, who is deeply in love with Empress Marie Antoinette (Teresa Stratas in a heart-searing performance) and determined to rewrite history and save her from the guillotine. A young Renée Fleming, at the beginning of her international career, sings the unfaithful Rosina. Gino Quilico is the wily Figaro who tries to take matters in his own hands and Marilyn Horne stops the show as the exotic entertainer Samira.

The Ghosts of Versailles Corigliano

Public

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading