Le Nozze di Figaro

Overview

Le Nozze di Figaro marked the beginning of Mozart’s collaboration with Da Ponte. At the premiere in 1786, the success was mixed in Vienna, but Prague was enthusiastic about this love imbroglio set in Seville, where the Countess and Suzanna play cat and mouse with the gentlemen, to avoid the Count’s designs on his maids… Figaro undertakes to set this little world to rights, to confound his Master while preserving the Countess’s affair with Cherubino. An infernal machine launched at full speed, which allows Mozart to produce arias of great beauty, an exceptionally determined Figaro, and reversals of situation which are the subject of brilliant ensemble numbers at the end of each act. Exhilarating!

Cast

Robert Gleadow

Figaro

Thomas Dolié

Il Conte Almaviva

Angela Brower

Susanna

Ana Maria Labin

La Contessa Almaviva

Miriam Albano

Cherubino

Norman Patzke

Bartolo

Alix Le Saux

Marcellina

Marc Minkowski

Conductor