DECEMBER 2008 - Mozart's FIGARO in Strasbourg

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

DRAMMA GIOCOSO IN FOUR ACTS BY WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on La Folle Journée ou le mariage de Figaro
by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
First performance 1st May 1786 at the National Hofheater, Vienna

REVIVAL
Production of the Grand Théâtre de Genève

A day of madness such as never seen on the opera stage before! Marriage, love, flirtation and droit du seigneur become uneasy bedfellows when the masters suddenly see their authority being undermined by their servants. The spirit of the Enlightenment, the verve of Beaumarchais and especially the dramatic instinct of the Da Ponte – Mozart partnership make this work one of the turning points in the history of the opera, a stroke of genius from a composer barely twenty nine years old.


Conductor Roland Böer
Director Nicholas Hytner
Revival by Stephen Taylor
Stage and costumes Maria Bjornson (†)
Lighting Simon Trottet



Chœurs de l’Opéra national du Rhin
Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

Il Conte Almaviva Ludovic Tézier
La Contessa Almaviva Nuccia Focile
Susanna Sophie Karthäuser
Figaro David Bizic
Cherubino Valentina Kutzarova
Bartolo René Schirrer
Don Basilio Loïc Félix
Don Curzio Michel Lecomte ***
Antonio Alain Domi ***
Barbarina nn **

** Artist of the Opéra Studio
*** Artists from the Chorus


"The Count tries his luck in his very own castle.
And it is not, nota bene, his wife who whets his appetite…"

SUSANNA, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Act I


DATES

STRASBOURG
Opéra
Sat 20 December 20.00
Mon 22 December 20.00
Fri 26 December 17.00
Mon 29 December 20.00
Fri 2 January 20.00
Sun 4 January 15.00

COLMAR
Théâtre Municipal
Sun 25 January 15.00

MULHOUSE
Théâtre de la Sinne
Fri 16 January 20.00
Sun 18 January 15.00

 

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