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Les Noces de Figaro, Opéra Garnier de Paris

100% | Jan 15, 2022 | Music

The Marriage of Figaro is one of the most emblematic operas in the repertoire. Brahms spoke of it as a “miracle” and the Countess' complaint still resonates today as one of the most heartbreaking musical pages. It was by resuming Beaumarchais' comedy, which caused a scandal in Parisian society, that Mozart and his librettist Da Ponte began their first collaboration. The play was banned by Joseph II in 1785 at the Vienna Theater. Is it because it exposed too much to the forefront the contradictions of an already faltering regime, ready to collapse with the French Revolution? Netia Jones preserves the very essence of Beaumarchais' play by questioning human relationships with humor but not without mischief, in a production which confuses reality and fiction to the point of asking, like the Count: "Are we playing a comedy?" »

Featured Crew

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sound
Lorenzo da Ponte
Writer

Cast

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Ying Fang
Susanna
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Lea Desandre
Cherubin
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Maria Bengtsson
Comtesse Almaviva

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