Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. It was composed between 1785 and 1786 and premiered on 1 May 1786 in the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Semper Opera Premiered 22 January 2006
Runs 3 hours, 15 minutes
Performed in Italian with German surtitles
CAST
Graf Almaviva
Roman Trekel (Nov.)
Markus Butter (June)
Gräfin Almaviva
Ute Selbig (Nov.)
Rachel Harnisch (June)
Susanna
Lydia Teuscher (Nov.)
Julia Kleiter (June)
Figaro
Markus Marquardt (Nov.)
Christoph Pohl (June)
Cherubino
Antigone Papoulkas (Nov.)
Stephanie Atanasov (June)
Marcellina
Christa Mayer (Nov.)
Andrea Ihle (June)
Bartolo
Georg Zeppenfeld (Nov.)
N.N. (10. | 18. June)
Rainer Büsching (12. | 16. June)
Basilio
Tom Martinsen (Nov.)
Gerald Hupach (June)
Barbarina
N.N.
Don Curzio
Angelo Antonio Poli (Member of «Junges Ensemble Semperoper») (Nov.), Peter Küchler (June)
Antonio
Rainer Büsching (Nov.), Peter Lobert (June)
Staatsopernchor
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
With generous support of the Foundation for Support of the Semper Opera House
PRODUCTION TEAM
Musical direction
Tomáš Netopil
Production
David Mouchtar-Samorai
Stage design
Heinz Hauser
Wardrobe
Joachim Herzog
Lighting design
Jan Seeger
Choir
Christof Bauer
Dramaturgy
Hans-Georg Wegner