Royal Opera House: The Marriage of Figaro

David McVicar's spellbinding production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO is set in 1830s post-revolution France, where the inexorable unravelling of an old order has produced acute feelings of loss. In the relationship between Finley's suave, dashingly self-absorbed Count and Röschmann's passionately dignified Countess, which lies at the tragic heart of the opera, the sexy ease between a feisty Figaro (Erwin Schrott) and a sassy Susanna (Miah Persson) is starkly absent, the tenacious spark between Marcellina (Graciela Araya) and Bartolo (Jonathan Veira) suggesting what might be rekindled. The production is superbly complemented by the beauty of Paule Constable's lighting and Tanya McCallin's evocative sets. Antonio Pappano conducts (and accompanies the recitatives) with invigorating wit and emotional depth.

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  Erwin Schrott

  Figaro
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  Miah Persson

  Susanna
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  Gerald Finley

  Comte Almaviva
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  Dorothea Röschmann

  Comtesse Almaviva
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  Rinat Shaham

  Cherubino
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  Antonio Pappano

  Self - Conductor
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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Self - Composer
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  Philip Langridge

  Don Basilio
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  Francis Egerton

  Don Curzio