Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

Also available on Blu-ray Perhaps no opera is closely and affectionately associated with a single house as Le nozze di Figaro is with Glyndebourne. Effortlessly witty yet shot through with pain and sadness, this deeply ambivalent life in the day of masters and servants as they scheme and outwit one another was Glyndebourne’s opening production in 1934. Michael Grandage’s staging is the seventh, set in a louche Sixties ambience. Marshalled by the ‘ideal pacing’ of Robin Ticciati, a youthful cast of principals has ‘no weak link’ and ‘looks gorgeous’ (The Sunday Times) in a production that continues Glyndebourne’s rewarding history of engagement with Mozart’s and da Ponte’s ‘day of madness’. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Countess Almaviva – Sally Matthews Figaro – Vito Priante Count Almaviva – Audun Iversen Susanna – Lydia Teuscher Cherubino – Isabel Leonard Bartolo – Andrew Shore Marcellina – Ann Murray Don Basilio – Alan Oke Antonio – Nicholas Folwell Don