Event listing: Le nozze di Figaro | Nationaltheater | Event is in the past

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NationaltheaterMax-Joseph-Platz 2, Munich, Bavaria, 80539, Germany

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Programme

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

Performers

Bavarian State Opera
Dan Ettinger	Conductor
Dieter Dorn	Director
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
Sir Simon Keenlyside	Baritone	Count Almaviva
Kate Royal	Soprano	Countess Almaviva
Angela Brower	Mezzo-soprano	Cherubino
Luca Pisaroni	Baritone	Figaro
Adriana Kučerová	Soprano	Susanna
Heike Grötzinger	Mezzo-soprano	Marcellina
Ulrich Reß	Tenor	Don Basilio

When the servants marry, the Count wants to have a little (more) fun in the bargain. He craves the first night with Susanna, the chambermaid. Figaro is not amused. The countess and Susanna make common cause. Double disguises and then some – and even more complications. Everybody wants everyone else – which doesn't always pan out. Nobody could lust after anyone to more glorious music. Summary: men are different – and so are women!

In Italian with German surtitles.

Reviews of Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492 directed by Dieter Dorn

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Nationaltheater, Munich, December 2014

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Nationaltheater, Munich, July 2014

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Nationaltheater, Munich, November 2016 (Deutsch)

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An effervescent Figaro at the Bayerische Staatsoper

Max Woods, 13th May

Although written many years before Rossini's The Barber of Seville, the story of The Marriage of Figaro is in fact the sequel to that of the later opera. This farcical masterpiece of the opera buffa style was the first of three operas Mozart worked on with the Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte and was a risky undertaking.

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