For more than 200 years, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” have been among the best-known operas in the world, with comical stories and lively music ...
When Filippo Fontana was a young clarinetist growing up in Udine, Italy, he went to a hometown production of “The Barber of Seville.” “I remember Figaro coming out of the audience,” he says, “and ...
THUMBNAIL SKETCH: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO recounts a single day of farce – the wedding day of two servants, Figaro, servant to the Count, and his bride-to-be Susanna, servant to the Countess. As they ...
The Palm Beach Opera kicked off the opening night of its final production of the 2025 season, Mozart’s "Le nozze di Figaro," (The Marriage of Figaro) on Friday night at the Kravis Center. The ...
The Marriage of Figaro is, metaphorically, a veritable grand tour of Europe. It also has the makings of a classic joke: an Austrian composer and an Italian librettist walk into a bar, armed with a ...
Sarasota Opera will open Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro on Saturday, March 8. Commonly recognized as one of the great achievements of Western music, The Marriage of Figaro is admired ...
The lights dimmed as the curtain rose to reveal the cluttered setting of a hotel casino set in Las Vegas. After weeks of preparation, the well-rehearsed cast of “The Marriage of Figaro” finally took ...