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Opera Australia: The Marriage of Figaro with a difference

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Reviewed at Sydney Opera House: Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney on 28 February 2012
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Opera Australia
Simon Hewett, Conductor
Benedict Andrews, Director
Michael Lewis, Count Almaviva
Elvira Fatykhova, Countess Almaviva
Taryn Fiebig, Susanna
Joshua Bloom, Figaro
Dominica Matthews, Cherubino
Jacqueline Dark, Marcellina
Conal Coad, Doctor Bartolo
Kanen Breen, Don Basilio
Opera Australia Orchestra
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