As far as opera director Ian Rutherford is concerned, The Marriage of Figaro has “possibly the greatest Act II of opera and musical theater that was ever created and the greatest libretto ever written ...

The Marriage of Figaro is, metaphorically, a veritable grand tour of Europe. It also has the makings of a classic joke: an Austrian composer and an Italian librettist walk into a bar, armed with a ...

Opera Santa Barbara’s (OSB) next production will be “The Marriage of Figaro” (1786), with music by Wolfgang Mozart, and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on the 1784 play of the same name by ...

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The Palm Beach Opera kicked off the opening night of its final production of the 2025 season, Mozart’s "Le nozze di Figaro," (The Marriage of Figaro) on Friday night at the Kravis Center. The ...

For more than 200 years, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” have been among the best-known operas in the world, with comical stories and lively music ...

When we first encountered Shaw’s production in 2011 – all rams’ skulls and robust humour – it had a wit that emerged from an almost overwhelming attention to musical detail, gesture narrating score ...

A hokey, old-fashioned painted curtain covering the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage was not an encouraging first sight. The vivacious overture conducted with grace and fluidity did, on the other hand, ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. After a nearly two-year absence, the sounds of music returned to the Tesuque hills on Saturday when the Santa Fe ...

A Houston Grand Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro that abounds with scene stealers. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane It isn’t the spiffy red and yellow Italian sports car (an Alfa Romeo, maybe) ...