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Bass

Tyler Simpson

Figaro

Soprano

Joélle Harvey

Susanna

Baritone

Christian Bowers

The Count of Almaviva

Danielle Pastin

The Countess of Almaviva

Mezzo-soprano

Corrie Stallings

Cherubino

Brian Kontes

Bartolo

Leah de Gruyl

Marcelline

Tenor

Eric Ferring

Basilio

Ashley Fabian

Barbarina

Andy Berry

Antonio

Don Curzio

Conductor

Antony Walker

Stage director

David Paul

Set designer

Benoît Dugardyn

Costume designer

Myung Hee Cho

Lighting designer

Cindy Limauro

Pittsburgh Opera

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James Geier

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Mark Trawka

Assistant Stage Director

Frances Rabalais

Assistant Lighting Designer

Todd Nonn

Le nozze di Figaro -  (The Marriage of Figaro)

Pittsburgh

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Benedum Center

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The Marriage of Figaro

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Le nozze di Figaro Mozart

Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is one of the most popular comic operas of all time. Filled with amusing cases of mistaken identity and romantic subterfuge, plus music by a Mozart at the height of his powers, The Marriage of Figaro has stood the test of time for centuries.

Based on the play by Pierre Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro is a sequel to The Barber of Seville, which we performed at the Benedum Center in 2016. The story opens several years later, in Count Almaviva’s palace near Seville, Spain. Rosina is now the Countess; but her husband has lost much of his interest in her and is a would-be philanderer.

Figaro, the happy bachelor at the end of The Barber of Seville, is in love with the Countess’s servant Susanna, who he plans to wed that very day. However, their employer Count Almaviva has his eye on Susanna. In fact, the Count intends to invoke the hated feudal practice of droit de seigneur - the infamous right of the lord to sleep with a commoner’s bride on her wedding night.

Figaro, Susanna, and the Countess are understandably outraged at this possibility, and are determined not only to prevent it, but to teach the Count a lesson while they’re at it.

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The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, From (2017/2017), Directed by David Paul,, Conductor Antony Walker, Benedum Center, Pittsburgh, United States

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