Hackney Empire291 Mare Street,
Hackney, London, Greater London, E8 1EJ, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) | Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) | Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte |
Performers
| Royal Academy Opera | |||
| Dame Jane Glover | Conductor | ||
| Dame Janet Suzman | Director | ||
| Fotini Dimou | Set Designer | ||
| Jake Wiltshire | Lighting Designer | ||
| Royal Academy Sinfonia | |||
| Henry Neill | Baritone | Count Almaviva | 2015 Oct 30, Nov 01 |
| Haobin Wang | Baritone | Count Almaviva | 2015 Oct 31, Nov 02 |
| Emily Garland | Soprano | Countess Almaviva | 2015 Oct 30, Nov 01 |
| Eve Daniell | Soprano | Countess Almaviva | 2015 Oct 31, Nov 02 |
| Božidar Smiljanić | Bass | Figaro | 2015 Oct 30, Nov 01 |
| Richard Walshe | Bass | Figaro | 2015 Oct 31, Nov 02 |
| Charlotte Schoeters | Soprano | Susanna | 2015 Oct 30, Nov 01 |
| Nika Gorič | Soprano | Susanna | 2015 Oct 31, Nov 02 |
| Katherine Aitken | Mezzo-soprano | Cherubino | 2015 Oct 30, Nov 01 |
| Laura Zigmintaitė | Mezzo-soprano | Cherubino | 2015 Oct 31, Nov 02 |
| Timothy Murphy | Bass | Doctor Bartolo | 2015 Oct 30, Nov 01 |
| Robert Garland | Bass | Doctor Bartolo | 2015 Oct 31, Nov 02 |
| Claire Barnett-Jones | Mezzo-soprano | Marcellina | 2015 Oct 30, Nov 01 |
| Helen Brackenbury | Mezzo-soprano | Marcellina | 2015 Oct 31, Nov 02 |
| Lorena Paz Nieto | Soprano | Barbarina | 2015 Oct 30, Nov 01 |
| Alys Mererid Roberts | Soprano | Barbarina | 2015 Oct 31, Nov 02 |
| John Porter | Tenor | Don Basilio | 2015 Oct 30, Nov 01 |
| William Blake | Tenor | Don Basilio | 2015 Oct 31, Nov 02 |
| Mikhail Shepelenko | Tenor | Don Curzio | 2015 Oct 30, Nov 01 |
| Joshua Baxter | Tenor | Don Curzio | 2015 Oct 31, Nov 02 |
| Alex Otterburn | Baritone | Antonio | 2015 Oct 30, Nov 01 |
| Dominic Bowe | Baritone | Antonio | 2015 Oct 31, Nov 02 |
You can listen to the next generation of classical musicians at the Royal Academy of Music’ (Sunday Times), and now the opera stars of the future go to Hackney Empire to present Le nozze di Figaro, universally heralded as one of Mozart’s greatest masterworks.
‘The Royal Academy of Music's opera can always be looked forward to because it never disappoints… the musical performance is invariably on a high level’
— The Spectator
Performed in Italian with surtitles
Conductor Jane Glover, the Academy’s Director of Opera, is a world authority in Mozart’s life and work.
This is the eagerly anticipated opera direction debut of Dame Janet Suzman, renowned actor and director.
