San Francisco Opera is set to present Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the War Memorial Opera House. The opera will be performed between Oct. 31 and Nov. 29 and Shawna Lucey directs the Company’s production by Michael Cavanagh. Conductor Sebastian Weigle makes his house debut leading a cast that includes Peter Kellner, Slávka Zámečníková, Thomas Mole, Olivia Smith, Simone {…}
(Photo: © Wiener Staatsoper / Marcel Urlaub) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” remains the gold standard of operatic comedy, effortlessly blending sparkling wit with sharp social critique. It takes Pierre Beaumarchais’s controversial play and transforms it into a breathtaking duel of wits unfolding over a single chaotic day. Barry Kosky’s Concept Director Barrie Kosky, in his 2023 production, {…}
(Credit: David Ruano) In a production built around camp, color, and a towering wedding cake, Marta Pazos has uncovered what has always been hidden in plain sight within Mozart’s comedy of desire, class, and performance. Mozart can survive everything: new translations, radical reinterpretations, and directorial manifestos the size of doctoral dissertations. He survives because his scores always contain more than {…}
The Dutch National Opera is set to present Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro.” The production will be directed by Kirill Serebrennikov who will reimagine the opera to the present day, using a set design that sharply exposes the societal divide between rich and poor. The stage will be split horizontally: above, an elegant, minimalist home for the elite, filled with contemporary {…}
(Photo: Jochen Quast) Deutsche Oper am Rhein prides itself on having the largest permanent ensemble of soloists in the world. This is no exaggeration: the German opera house is renowned for maintaining one of the most substantial fixed ensembles internationally, with approximately 47 singers under permanent contract –excluding the chorus and its collaborations with two orchestras – thus covering the {…}
The Atlanta Opera is set to perform Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro.” The production by Stephen Lawless will be conducted by Christoper Allen Brandon Cedel leads the cast as Figaro while Sydney Mancasola will sing the role of Susanna. They will be joined by Luke Sutliff as Count Almaviva, Iulia Maria Dan as the Countess, Rihab Chaieb as Cherubino and {…}
(Credit: F.Parenzan) The Teatro Trieste Verdi is set to open its 2025-26 season with “Il barbiere di Siviglia” and Le Nozze di Figaro,” two productions deliberately interwoven within the calendar to enable audiences to experience both works over the course of a single weekend. The project pays tribute to the figure of Figaro, the revolutionary character conceived by Beaumarchais in {…}
Soprano Joélle Harvey is set to join the cast of the Washington National Opera’s production of Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro.” In her house debut, the soprano will take on the role of Susanna, joining a cast that stars Rosa Feola, Will Liverman, Le Bu, John Holiday, and Elizabeth Bishop. Robert Spano conducts the production, which opens on Nov. 14, {…}
The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing is set to present “Le Nozze di Figaro.” The Mozart opera, which opens on July 15 and runs through the 20th, will feature an international cast starring Markus Paul Werba, Benedetta Torre, Alessandro Luongo, Mariya Mudryak, and Miriam Albano, as well as a local cast of Chinese singers starring Zhang Xiaomeng, {…}
(© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photography by Richard Hubert Smith) By the time the current run of “Le nozze di Figaro” is concluded, Glyndebourne will have hosted its 600th performance of Mozart and Da Ponte’s perennial masterpiece. The opera launched the country house enterprise in 1934 at the behest of Fritz Busch and Rudolf Bing, who wisely cautioned against Christie’s Wagner-shaped {…}
(Credit: Julia Wimmerlin) Olga Kulchynska is currently starring in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Le Nozze di Figaro.” The soprano made her Met debut six years ago and has already performed over 20 times with the company in “La Bohème” and Turandot.” This season, she will get her first Met Live in HD with her interpretation of Susanna in Mozart’s {…}