THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO COMEDY by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Comedy & Comic Opera
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3h 2m
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish
The opera is the first of three resulting from the collaboration between Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, the other two being Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. It was Mozart who initially chose Beaumarchais' play, The Marriage of Figaro, and who brought it to da Ponte, who, in the space of six weeks, made a libretto in Italian, removing all the text from the text, political references from the original.
The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro), is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"). It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity.
Considered one of the greatest operas ever written, it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas. In 2017, BBC News Magazine asked 172 opera singers to vote for the best operas ever written. The Marriage of Figaro came in first out of the 20 operas featured, with the magazine describing the work as being "one of the supreme masterpieces of operatic comedy, whose rich sense of humanity shines out of Mozart’s miraculous score".
Director: Tobias Richter (Director), Marko Letonja (Music Conductor)
Cast: Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Count Almaviva), Nicole Cabell (Countess Almaviva), Guido Loconsolo (Figaro), Regula Mühlemann (Susanna), Avery Amereau (Cherubino), Bálint Szabó (Doctor Bartolo), Xiaomi Braun (Antonio), Seraina Perrenoud (Barbarina), Monica Bacelli (Marcellina)
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