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Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492

Overture

I: "Cinque... dieci... venti..."

Act I

I: "Se a caso Madama"

I: "Se vuol ballare, signor contino"

I: "La vendetta, oh, la vendetta"

I: "Via, resti sevita, madama brillante"

I: "Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio"

I: "Cosa sento! Tosto andate"

I: "Giovani liete, fiori spargete"

I: "Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso"

II: "Porgi amor"

Act II

II: "Voi che sapete che cosa è amor"

II: "Venite, inginocchiatevi"

II: "Susanna, or via sortite"

II: "Aprite, presto, aprite"

II: "Esci ormai, garzon malnato"

Act III

III: "Crudel! Perché finora"

III: "Hai già vinto la causa!"

III: "E Susanna non vien!" - "Dove sono i bei momenti"

III: "Sull'aria... Che soave zeffiretto"

III: "Recevete, o padroncina"

Act IV

IV: "L'ho perduta, me meschina!"

IV: "Tutto è disposto"

IV: "Giunse alfin il momento"

IV: "Deh, vieni, non tardar, oh gioia bella"

IV: "Gente, gente, all'armi"

Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro

Michael Grandage (stage director), Robin Ticciati (conductor) – With Vito Priante (Figaro), Lydia Teuscher (Suzanne)...

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Cast

Michael Grandage — Stage director

Christopher Oram — Set and costume design

Paule Constable — Lighting designer

Ben Wright — Choreographer

Vito Priante — Figaro

Lydia Teuscher — Susanna

Andrew Shore — Bartolo

Program notes

Perhaps no opera is as closely and affectionately associated with a single opera house as Le Nozze di Figaro is with Glyndebourne. Michael Grandage's staging is no less than the seventh in the festival's history, and sets the opera in the sleazy Sixties. Directed by Robin Ticciati, the production was lauded for its "ideal pacing" and youthful cast (which includes "no weak link" and "looks gorgeous"—The Sunday Times), and continues Glyndebourne's rewarding explorations of Mozart and Da Ponte's "day of madness".

The story takes place on one incredible day in an upstairs-downstairs world populated by servants who are not servile and their easily-outsmarted masters. Figaro and Susanna are preparing for marriage, but before they can make it down the aisle, their plans are put in jeopardy by the Count Almaviva, who fancies Susanna so much that he wants to make her his lover. In a complicated and clever plan, the future newlyweds and their friends expose the Count's infidelity to his wife the Countess, teaching him a lesson he'll never forget.

Photo: © Alastair Muir

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Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492

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