Le Nozze di Figaro

The story

Le Nozze di Figaro marked the beginning of Mozart’s collaboration with Da Ponte. At the premiere in 1786, the success was mixed in Vienna, but Prague was enthusiastic about this love imbroglio set in Seville, where the Countess and Suzanna play cat and mouse with the gentlemen, to avoid the Count’s designs on his maids… Figaro undertakes to set this little world to rights, to confound his Master while preserving the Countess’s affair with Cherubino. An infernal machine launched at full speed, which allows Mozart to produce arias of great beauty, an exceptionally determined Figaro, and reversals of situation which are the subject of brilliant ensemble numbers at the end of each act. Exhilarating!

Cast

R Robert GleadowFigaro T Thomas DoliéIl Conte Almaviva A Angela BrowerSusanna A Ana Maria LabinLa Contessa Almaviva M Miriam AlbanoCherubino N Norman PatzkeBartolo A Alix Le SauxMarcellina M Marc MinkowskiConductor