Organization

Conductor

Teodor Currentzis

Stage director

Philipp Himmelmann

Set designer

Johannes Leiacker

Costume designer

Florence von Gerkan

Lighting designer

Davy Cunningham

Chorus master

Vitaly Polonsky

Assistant Director

Fabian von Matt

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre

Italian

Le nozze di Figaro -  (The Marriage of Figaro)

Perm

Russia

Le nozze di Figaro Mozart

Public

Private

The Marriage of Figaro

Russian

Approved

The opera was written in 1786. This version was first performed in Perm in 2012. Running time: 3 hours 25 minutes including 1 interval

Figaro, Count Almaviva’s valet, intends to marry Susanna, the countess’s maid. However, the Count does all he can to prevent the marriage, as he has taken a fancy to Susanna himself. The resourceful servant could easily wind the old voluptuary around his little finger, but his master’s house is full of plotters determined to spite the young hero. The plot was taken from a comedy by French dramatist Pierre Beaumarchais entitled The Mad Day, or the Marriage of Figaro (1781). The play was censored for three years on account of its caustic satire of the aristocracy, until public opinion obliged Louis XVI to lift the prohibition. The scandal surrounding the play only encouraged Mozart to write his opera. The composer and librettist concealed the social subtext in a comedy of morals with witty dialogue and metamorphoses. 

In Philipp Himmelmann’s production, the action of the opera is transposed into the realm of abstraction and symbolic details: Mozart’s garden is reduced to a single tree; the action takes place on a boarded platform; the artists throw earth at one another; and a black sun hovers erotically and threateningly over the action.

English

The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, From (2013/2013), Directed by Philipp Himmelmann,, Conductor Teodor Currentzis, Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre, Perm, Russia

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