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A dazzling new Figaro at the Lyric Opera

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Reviewed at Lyric Opera House, Chicago on 26 September 2015
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Henrik Nánási, Conductor
Barbara Gaines, Director
James Noone, Set Designer
Susan Mickey, Costume Designer
Luca Pisaroni, Count Almaviva
Amanda Majeski, Countess Almaviva
Adam Plachetka, Figaro
Christiane Karg, Susanna
Rachel Frenkel, Cherubino
Brindley Sherratt, Doctor Bartolo
Katharine Goeldner, Marcellina
Jonathan Johnson, Don Curzio
Keith Jameson, Don Basilio
Bradley Smoak, Antonio
Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi, Barbarina
Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra
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****1
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