The Marriage of Figaro, Palais Garnier, Paris: 19 January-18 February 2022

The Marriage of Figaro marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, which would continue with Don Giovanni and Cosi Fan Tutte. With his unrivalled instinct for the stage, the composer transcended the codes of opera buffa to elevate the genre to a comedy of manners, with a psychological insight as vivid as Beaumarchais'. He succeeds in reconciling poetry, theatre and music, both in the recitatives and in the many arias, duets and ensembles that we all know and love. After an illustrious Don Giovanni, Peter Mattei takes on the role of the Count under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel and in Netia Jones' new production which blurs the lines between reality and fiction.

• Le nozze di Figaro

  Opera in four acts
  After Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Le Mariage de Figaro

  • Libretto:

    Lorenzo Da Ponte

  • Music:

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - (1756-1791)

  • Conductor:

    Gustavo Dudamel

  • Director:

    Netia Jones

  • Set design:

    Netia Jones

  • Costume design:

    Netia Jones

  • Video:

    Netia Jones

  • Lighting:

    Lucy Carter

  • Choreography:

    Sophie Laplane

  • Dramaturgy:

    Solène Souriau

  • Chorus master:

    Alessandro Di Stefano

  Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
  
  Avec le soutien exceptionnel de Aline Foriel-Destezet

• Cast

  
  

  • Il conte di Almaviva:

    • Peter Mattei

  • La contessa di Almaviva:

    • Maria Bengtsson

      (21 Jan. > 9 Feb.)

    • Miah Persson

      (12 > 18 Feb.)

  • Susanna:

    • Ying Fang

  • Figaro:

    • Ildebrando D’arcangelo

  • Cherubino:

    • Lea Desandre

  • Marcellina:

    • Dorothea Röschmann

  • Bartolo:

    • James Creswell

  • Don Basilio :

    • Michael Colvin

  • Don Curzio:

    • Christophe Mortagne

  • Barbarina:

    • Kseniia Proshina

  • Antonio:

    • Marc Labonnette

  • Due Donne:

    • Andrea Cueva Molnar

    • Ilanah Lobel-Torres