Le nozze di Figaro
‘If you want to dance, Count, I’ll play the tune’. One wedding; one marriage on the rocks; one scheme; one day.
Performance Dates
About the opera
One wedding; one marriage on the rocks; one scheme; one day.
When a womanising aristocrat tries to seduce his valet’s pretty young fiancée, his wife and servants conspire to teach him a lesson in fidelity he’ll never forget. Plots are hatched, promises made (and broken) and disguises donned, as Mozart’s ‘mad day’ unfolds.
A revolutionary comedy in every sense, Mozart and Da Ponte’s adaptation of Beaumarchais’ banned 1778 play about warring masters and servants takes a topical satire and broadens it into a deeply human drama. The battle between both classes and sexes remains sharply bladed, but the characters themselves are rounded by some of Mozart’s most sparkling music into feeling, fallible and all too familiar personalities.
Director Michael Grandage updates the action to the dying days of Spain’s Franco regime in his 2012 production. Giancarlo Andretta and Nicholas Carter conduct.
A revival of the Festival 2012 production. Sung in Italian with English supertitles
Creative team
Conductors
Giancarlo Andretta
Nicholas Carter (26, 30 June; 7, 10, 13, 16 July)
Director
Michael Grandage
Revival Director
Ian Rutherford
Designer
Christopher Oram
Movement Director
Ben Wright
Revival Movement Director
Kieran Sheehan
Lighting Designer
Paule Constable
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader
Pieter Schoeman
Fortepiano Continuo
Sergey Rybin
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Chorus Director
Aidan Oliver
Assistant Conductor
Tim Anderson
Music Preparation
Charlotte Forrest
Edward Reeve
Sergey Rybin
Language Coach
Marco Canepa
Staff Director
Rebecca Marine
Supertitles
Steven Gietzen
Cast
Figaro
Brandon Cedel
Ross Ramgobin (27 & 29 May)
Susanna
Hera Hyesang Park
Bartolo
Peter Kálmán
Marcellina
Rosie Aldridge
Cherubino
Emily Pogorelc
Ida Ränzlöv (7, 10, 13, 16 July)
Don Basilio
François Piolino
Count Almaviva
Germán Olvera
Countess Almaviva
Amanda Woodbury
Nardus Williams (10, 13, 16 July)
Antonio
Nicholas Folwell
Don Curzio
Colin Judson
Barbarina
Charlotte Bowden*+
First Bridesmaid
Cleo Lee-McGowan*+
Second Bridesmaid
Elizabeth Lynch*
* Soloist from The Glyndebourne Chorus
+ Jerwood Young Artist 2022
Photos: Bill Cooper
Le nozze di Figaro is available to support from £5000+
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Illustration © Katie Ponder