![]() Costumes are finely managed and appropriate for the chosen period although this time round, Don Basilio seemed to morph into something of a Charlie Chapin-tribute, at least from something of a distance.īut there was a big difference between casts. The combination of Tanya McCallin’s sets and Paule Constable’s lighting is the apogee of operatic expertise as the opera moves from the morning brightness of the first act through to the nocturnal shenanigans of Act IV. McVicar sets the opera in 1830’s post-Revolution France. I covered the previous incarnation in 2019, with Sir Simon Keenlyside as the Count and Julia Kleiter as the Countess, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner (review click here). Sir David McVicar’s production at Covent Garden is by now known to many and often celebrated. Sir David McVicar’s Le nozze di Figaro © Clive Barda There has been a good crop of Le nozze di Figaro’s over the last six months or so in the UK: firstly, Opera Holland Park’s magical production (I reviewed the Young Artists’ Performance click here), then HGO’s effervescent staging in Highgate ( click here). ![]() (CC) Riccardo Fassi (Figaro) and Giulia Semenzato (Susanna) © Clive Barda ![]() Music: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartLibretto: Lorenzo da Ponteįigaro: Riccardo FassiSusanna:Giulia Semenzato CountAlmaviva: Germán E.United Kingdom Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor/fortepiano continuo). Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappanoconductsa truly international cast in David McVicar’s timeless production. Comefor the music and stay for the cross-dressing hilarity, all unfolding over the course of one crazy, topsy-turvy day in the Almaviva household. ![]() Servants Figaro and Susanna are filled with excitement on their wedding day, but there’s a hitch: their employer, the Count Almaviva, has dishonourable intentions of his own towards the bride-to-be.With more twists than a page boy’s stockings, the story of Mozart’s comic opera will surprise and delight you at every turn. The Marriage of Figaro – Royal Opera House Screening ![]()
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