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Canadian Opera Company's sexed up Figaro: beautifully sung, creepily funny

Lauren Fagan (Countess), Emily Fons (Cherubino) and Andrea Carroll (Susanna)
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Lauren Fagan (Countess) and Gordon Bintner (Count)
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Uli Kirsch (Cherubim) and Luca Pisaroni (Figaro)
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Le nozze di Figaro
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“the headliner is Luca Pisaroni as Figaro, playing the manservant as a self confident fixer”
Reviewed at Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto on 27 January 2023
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Canadian Opera Company
Harry Bicket, Conductor
Claus Guth, Director
Christian Schmidt, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Olaf Winter, Lighting Designer
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Canadian Opera Company Chorus
Andi A. Müller, Video
Marcelo Buscaino, Revival Director
Gordon Bintner, Count Almaviva
Lauren Fagan, Countess Almaviva
Luca Pisaroni, Figaro
Andrea Carroll, Susanna
Emily Fons, Cherubino
Robert Pomakov, Doctor Bartolo
Megan Latham, Marcellina
Michael Colvin, Don Basilio
Doug MacNaughton, Antonio
Mireille Asselin, Barbarina
Jacques Arsenault, Don Curzio
Uli Kirsch, Tenor
Ramses Sigl, Choreography
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