Prom 60

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Festival: BBC Proms

Programme

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (semi-staged performance)

Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

Performers

Vito Priante	Baritone	Figaro
Lydia Teuscher	Soprano	Susanna
Sally Matthews	Soprano	Countess Almaviva
Audun Iversen	Baritone	Count Almaviva
Andrew Shore	Baritone	Doctor Bartolo
Ann Murray	Mezzo-soprano	Marcellina
Isabel Leonard	Mezzo-soprano	Cherubino
Alan Oke	Tenor	Don Basilio
Nicholas Folwell	Baritone	Antonio
Colin Judson	Tenor	Don Curzio
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Robin Ticciati	Conductor

Since its inception, opera at Glyndebourne has been
almost synonymous with Mozart, The Marriage of
Figaro being the first work to be performed there,
in May 1934. Servants outwit their master again in
this latest production, new for 2012, which confirms
a recent preference for period instruments.

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Prom 60: Glyndebourne's outstanding Figaro

Nahoko Gotoh, 31st August

Every year, Glyndebourne brings an opera from their festival to the BBC Proms and adapts it to the Royal Albert Hall stage. This year they brought their hottest production of the summer, The Marriage of Figaro (directed at Glyndebourne by Michael Grandage and adapted for the Proms by Ian Rutherford), and it was wonderful to see the Albert Hall packed to rafters.

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