Le nozze di Figaro - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Le nozze di Figaro
Text by Lorenzo da Ponte after Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Comedia per musica in four acts
Musical direction
Philippe Jordan
Staging
Barrie Kosky
Stage
Rufus Didwiszus
Costumes
Victoria Behr
Light
Franck Evin
Stage design assistant
Jan Freese
Graf Almaviva
Andrè Schuen
Gräfin Almaviva
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
Susanna
Ying Fang
Figaro
Peter Kellner
Cherubino
Patricia Nolz
Marcellina
Stephanie Houtzeel
Basilio
Josh Lovell
Don Curzio
Andrea Giovannini
Antonio
Wolfgang Bankl
Contents
It was certainly a risk that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte took when they first worked together, but in any case it was a completely unusual approach in Vienna in the late 18th century: starting a new opera project without having been commissioned beforehand , with no guaranteed prospect of a performance or even payment. In the case of Mozart, the situation was made more difficult by the fact that although he had an excellent reputation as an instrumental composer in the relevant places - not least at the imperial court - he was considered to have little experience in the field of the theatre. On top of that, the template chosen by the composer, Beaumarchais' comedy Le Mariage de Figaro, also called into question the realization of the planned opera on a public stage - after all, Joseph II had shortly before forbidden the performance of the play, which was charged with revolutionary explosive material, on the grounds that » the piece contained a lot of offensiveness. With a lot of diplomatic skill and pointing out that he had not created a pure translation of the French original, but a new version of the material that had been cleaned of all questionable content, Da Ponte managed to allay the emperor's concerns, even to convince him of the project and finally to do so to personally order the premiere of Le nozze di Figaro on May 1, 1786 in the Hofburgtheater.
Subject to change.
Comedia per musica in four acts
Musical direction
Philippe Jordan
Staging
Barrie Kosky
Stage
Rufus Didwiszus
Costumes
Victoria Behr
Light
Franck Evin
Stage design assistant
Jan Freese
Graf Almaviva
Andrè Schuen
Gräfin Almaviva
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
Susanna
Ying Fang
Figaro
Peter Kellner
Cherubino
Patricia Nolz
Marcellina
Stephanie Houtzeel
Basilio
Josh Lovell
Don Curzio
Andrea Giovannini
Antonio
Wolfgang Bankl
Contents
It was certainly a risk that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte took when they first worked together, but in any case it was a completely unusual approach in Vienna in the late 18th century: starting a new opera project without having been commissioned beforehand , with no guaranteed prospect of a performance or even payment. In the case of Mozart, the situation was made more difficult by the fact that although he had an excellent reputation as an instrumental composer in the relevant places - not least at the imperial court - he was considered to have little experience in the field of the theatre. On top of that, the template chosen by the composer, Beaumarchais' comedy Le Mariage de Figaro, also called into question the realization of the planned opera on a public stage - after all, Joseph II had shortly before forbidden the performance of the play, which was charged with revolutionary explosive material, on the grounds that » the piece contained a lot of offensiveness. With a lot of diplomatic skill and pointing out that he had not created a pure translation of the French original, but a new version of the material that had been cleaned of all questionable content, Da Ponte managed to allay the emperor's concerns, even to convince him of the project and finally to do so to personally order the premiere of Le nozze di Figaro on May 1, 1786 in the Hofburgtheater.
Subject to change.
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