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The Marriage of Figaro

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Leeds Grand TheatreLeeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS1 6NZ, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (Sung in English)Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Performers
Opera North
Antony HermusConductor
Jo DaviesDirector
Leslie TraversSet Designer
Gabrielle DaltonCostume Designer
James FarncombeLighting Designer
Kay ShepherdChoreography
Chorus of Opera North
Orchestra of Opera North
Quirijn de LangBass-baritoneCount Almaviva
Máire FlavinSopranoCountess Almaviva
Phillip RhodesBaritoneFigaro
Fflur WynSopranoSusanna
Heather LoweMezzo-sopranoCherubino
Jonathan BestBassDoctor Bartolo
Gaynor KeebleContraltoMarcellina
Joseph ShoveltonTenorDon Basilio

Mozart’s joyous farce of mistaken identity, misunderstanding and comic twists is bursting at the seams with invention and wit in this hit production by Jo Davies (Kiss Me, Kate). It’s Figaro’s wedding day, and his master, Count Almaviva, plans to seduce the bride-to-be. Meanwhile, the heartbroken Countess is the subject of the teenage pageboy Cherubino’s advances. Mozart’s sublime music bubbles along, conveying all the delight and pain of love and the agony and ecstasy of desire.

Antony Hermus (Tosca) returns to conduct a cast including Phillip Rhodes as Figaro, Fflur Wyn as Susanna, Quirijn de Lang as Count Almaviva and Máire Flavin as the Countess.


Reviews of Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492 directed by Jo Davies