Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

Cast
Graf Almaviva: Gerald Finley
Gräfin Almaviva: Golda Schultz
Susanna: Katharina Konradi
Figaro: Alex Esposito
Cherubino: Emily Pogorelc
Marcellina: Anne Sofie von Otter
Bartolo: Maurizio Muraro
Basilio: Jonas Hacker
Don Curzio: Kevin Conners
Barbarina: Danae Kontora
Antonio: Andrew Gilstrap
Mädchen: Juliana Zara

Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor

Production: Christof Loy
Set Design: Johannes Leiacker
Prop Design: Axel Bahro
Costume Design: Klaus Bruns
Lighting: Franck Evin
Dramaturgy: Daniel Menne
Choruses: Stellario Fagone

The marriage of Figaro and Susanna is imminent. However, when Figaro learns that his betrothed is being courted by another, a dangerous game of intrigue and exposure begins. The extent to which the work’s protagonists are caught up in a dense web of emotional dependency becomes ever clearer. In Le nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] Mozart shows that it is love that sometimes inflicts the deepest wounds – and that healing is only available to one prepared to offer himself to the other in total surrender. This opera, first performed in 1786, deals with a timeless theme: the both confusing and fascinating complexity of human relationships.