Event listing: The Marriage of Figaro | Walt Disney Concert Hall | Event is in the past

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Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, California, CA 90012, United States

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Programme

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

Performers

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel	Conductor
Los Angeles Master Chorale
James Darrah	Director
Rafael Payare	Conductor
Christopher Alden	Director		2013 May 25
Christopher Maltman	Baritone	Count Almaviva
Dorothea Röschmann	Soprano	Countess Almaviva
Edwin Crossley-Mercer	Baritone	Figaro
Malin Christensson	Soprano	Susanna
Simone Osborne	Soprano	Barbarina	2013 May 25

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Alden's Marriage of Figaro at the LA Phil leaves out Da Ponte

Matthew Richard Martinez, 25th May

Even Emperor Josef II would have thought this was a bad idea. The real-life monarch depicted in Peter Shaffer’s fictional play Amadeus quite memorably forbade ballet in his court operas. But the absurdity of the dancers carrying on with no music playing in Mozart’s Act III convinced the Emperor that he was in the wrong.

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