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Le nozze di Figaro
Le nozze di Figaro
theater tickets
Royal Opera House
Booking from
Tue, 8th July 2008
Booking to
Sat, 19th July 2008
Revolution is in the air in this Season’s revival of David McVicar’s wonderfully illuminating production of Le nozze di Figaro, new to The Royal Opera in 2006 to mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. Life on an estate in the late 1820s reveals with truth and no little wit all the tensions between master and servants, with the symptoms of Europe’s social upheaval never far away. Count Almaviva’s attempts to bed his manservant Figaro’s fiancé Susanna are repeatedly thwarted by those around him, including his own wife, the Countess. In such enlightened times if the Count wishes to dance, then Figaro will make sure it is to his tune and not the other way round.
Mozart’s music makes this one of the finest jewels in the opera repertory, from the familiar first notes of the energetic Overture to Figaro’s famous ‘Non più andrai’ and the genuine despair of the Countess at her husband’s infidelity, revealed in ‘Porgi, amor’ and ‘Dove sono’. All shades of emotion are portrayed through the solos, duets and ensembles, and for this revival the cast of singers is an exceptionally fine one to bring a Mozart masterpiece to full dramatic life. Running time: 3 hours 30 minutes Sung in Italian with English surtitles CREDITS Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Director David McVicar Designs Tanya McCallin Lighting Paule Constable Choreography Leah Hausman PERFORMERS Conductor David Syrus Charles Mackerras Figaro Ildebrando D'Arcangelo Susanna Aleksandra Kurzak Bartolo Robert Lloyd Marcellina Ann Murray Cherubino Sophie Koch Anna Bonitatibus Count Almaviva Peter Mattei Don Basilio Robin Leggate Countess Almaviva Barbara Frittoli Antonio Donald Maxwell Don Curzio Harry Nicoll Barbarina Kishani Jayasinghe* * Jette Parker young Artist The present theatre was built in 1858. During World War II it was used as a dance hall but after the war the decision was made to establish the Royal Opera House as the permanent year-round home of the opera and ballet companies now known as the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet. The ballet company reopened the building on 20 February 1946 with The Sleeping Beauty. The two companies combined for Purcell's The Fairy Queen that December, and on 14 January 1947, Covent Garden Opera Company gave its first complete opera performance, Bizet's Carmen.
TRAVEL InfoNearest Rail: Charing Cross Nearest Tube: Covent Garden (Piccadilly line) |
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