Name: Le nozze di Figaro
Start: 2025-06-18
End: 2025-06-18
Location: Volksoper

Admin

Volksoper Wien

Conductor

Ben Glassberg

Stage director

Lotte de Beer

Set designer

Rae Smith

Costume designer

Jorine van Beek

Lighting designer

Alex Brok

Chorus master

Roger Díaz-Cajamarca

Singer

Baritone

Daniel Schmutzhard

The Count of Almaviva

Soprano

Matilda Sterby

The Countess of Almaviva

Lauren Urquhart

Susanna

Bass

Michael Arivony

Figaro

Mezzo-soprano

Annelie Sophie Müller

Cherubino

Ulrike Steinsky

Marcelline

Tenor

Timothy Fallon

Basilio

Don Curzio

Stefan Cerny

Bartolo

Martin Winkler

Antonio

Jaye Simmons

Barbarina

Orchestra

Orchester der Volksoper Wien

Italian

Le nozze di Figaro -  (The Marriage of Figaro)

Vienna

Austria

Volksoper

Le nozze di Figaro

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The Marriage of Figaro

Rahul Solomon

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English

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Figaro, the Count’s servant, has become engaged to Susanna, the Countess’s maid. The Count is stalking Susanna. Figaro hatches a plan to put the count in his place. After a “mad day” of disguises, misunderstandings and other comical complications, Figaro gets his Susanna and the Count has no choice but to apologize to the Countess.

Lotte de Beer: “Le nozze di Figaro is primarily a comedy about sex and power. Since the rise of the MeToo movement, many people have looked back critically at the role these issues have played over the last decades. In our interpretation of Le nozze we examine the different perspectives on sex and power from the point of view of different characters in the opera.”

Figaro, der Diener des Grafen, hat sich mit Susanna, der Kammerzofe der Gräfin, verlobt. Der Graf stalkt Susanna. Die Gräfin leidet unter der Untreue ihres Mannes. Figaro heckt einen Plan aus, den Grafen in seine Schranken zu weisen. Nach einem „tollen Tag“ (so der Untertitel des Originalstücks von Beaumarchais) voller Verkleidungen, Missverständnisse und anderer komischer Verwicklungen, bekommt Figaro seine Susanna und dem Grafen bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als sich bei der Gräfin zu entschuldigen.

Lotte de Beer beleuchtet in ihrer Inszenierung die Themen Sex und Macht aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher Figuren. In den vier Akten der Oper sehen wir die Welt jeweils aus einem anderen Blickwinkel: Graf, Susanna, Gräfin und Barbarina.

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The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, Wed 18 Jun 2025, From (2025/2025), Directed by Lotte de Beer,, Conductor Ben Glassberg, Volksoper, Vienna, Austria

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