Stage director Cynthia Stokes calls "The Marriage of Figaro" the most important opera in the world, and she has the résumé to back it up. This Saturday’s Amarillo Opera production marks the seventh ...
Imagine a cocktail-drinking, cigarette-smoking Don Draper as Figaro. By his side is his betrothed, Susanna, dressed and coifed as Betty Draper. LSU Opera Director Dugg McDonough envisioned it, and now ...
THUMBNAIL SKETCH: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO recounts a single day of farce – the wedding day of two servants, Figaro, servant to the Count, and his bride-to-be Susanna, servant to the Countess. As they ...
CSUN Theatre and Music departments debuted “The Marriage of Figaro” on Nov. 20, showcasing the classic Mozart opera for the ...
Lucas Meachem, far right, as the Count in James Gray's new production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" for Los Angeles Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) A ...
Opera Colorado closes its triumphant 2018-19 season with a lavish production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, an opera frequently lauded as the pinnacle of the art form. The Marriage of Figaro ...
Maybe it’s because of the prevalence of male toxicity, hypocrisy and entitlement in the news lately, but the battle-of-the-sexes aspect of Mozart’s opera “The Marriage of Figaro” never seemed more ...
It was edifying to catch up with Jo Davies‘s scintillating production of Mozart’s da Ponte opera at its fifth rather than first performance, press and dignitaries having long departed along with most ...
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) ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s "The Marriage of Figaro" is a comic opera with some serious overtones. It has also inspired both revolution and Bugs Bunny. For some people, Bugs Bunny was the gateway drug ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Marriage of Figaro marked Mozart's first collaboration with Lorenzo da ...
Let no one call these nuptials a “marriage of convenience.” Ending a season of pandemic mayhem with the greatest classical opera buffa (and many say the greatest opera, period) requires crowd control ...