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You could be forgiven for thinking that there isn’t much more to be said about Le nozze di Figaro, the most performed opera in Glyndebourne’s history. However, Mozart’s classic role subversion comedy ...

Komische Oper Berlin's Marriage of Figaro - Jan Windszus Photography The Edinburgh International Festival is taking opera seriously this summer, and among its imports will be this riveting, moving ...

This spring, the Met presents a pair of masterpieces that define operatic comedy: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Featuring some of today’s most dynamic young stars ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Audience members were greeted by a familiar sight as they took their seats Saturday night for the first performance of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in The Santa Fe Opera’s new season: a stage studded ...

In this perspective, we have to gaze hard at the abuse of power – by men over women, the rich over the poor, even the smart over the simple – as it shows its brutal as well as its seductive face. And ...

Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading the cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Michael Sumuel is the clever valet Figaro opposite Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna.

Using five sets and a revolve, designer Christopher Oram locates Le nozze di Figaro amid the ancient, unchanging Moorish architecture of Seville. During a frantically busy overture we could be in any ...

Countless directors get away with murder presenting well-sung collections of comedy cliches, thanks to theatrically uncritical behavior by opera audiences who are only there for the singing.

Clément’s interpretation honours the opera’s classical roots, highlighting its timeless wit and biting social commentary. With elegantly designed revolving sets that guide the audience from chamber to ...

This Salzburg Festival production of Le nozze di Figaro (2020) offers a radical reinterpretation of Mozart's opera, directed by Martin Kušej, who continues his exploration of Mozart’s works following ...