Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
Jürgen Flimm and Gudrun Hartmann (stage directors), Gustavo Dudamel (music director) – With Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (Count Almaviva), Anna Prohaska (Susanna), Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino), Staatskapelle Berlin
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Cast
Jürgen Flimm — Stage director
Gudrun Hartmann — Stage director
Magdalena Gut — Set designer
Ursula Kudrna — Costume designer
Catharina Lühr — Choreographer
Olaf Freese — Lighting
Frank Flade — Chorus director
Detlef Giese — Dramaturgy
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo — Count Almaviva
Dorothea Röschmann — Countess Almaviva
Anna Prohaska — Susanna
Lauri Vasar — Figaro
Marianne Crebassa — Cherubino
Katharina Kammerloher — Marcellina
Florian Hoffmann — Basilio
Peter Maus — Don Curzio
Otto Katzameier — Bartolo
Program notes
In Jürgen Flimm’s highly acclaimed 2018 Le Nozze di Figaro, picturesquely-weathered shutters and wickerwork chairs greet the Almavivas as they arrive at their summer residence. The sunny setting is perfect for the lighthearted merriment on the way, but also leaves room for the German stage director’s strikingly nuanced interpretation of the masterpiece’s familiar personalities: Lauri Vasar’s intense and reticent Figaro, Anna Prohaska’s graceful and strong-willed Susanna, Ildebrando d’Arcangelo’s serious and aristocratic Count, Marianne Crebassa’s sensuous and tormented Cherubino, and finally Dorothea Röschmann’s noble and dignified Countess. Mozart's timeless score gets an all-star treatment from the Staatskapelle Berlin, which outdoes itself under the meticulous direction of Gustavo Dudamel.
