Le nozze di Figaro
This new production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin marks the beginning of a new Da Ponte cycle with Daniel Barenboim conducting and Vincent Huguet as stage director. Huguet, a student of Patrice Chéreau, has set the story in the 1980s. He wants the Da Ponte trilogy to be understood as a legend of sexual liberation and its consequences. Le nozze di Figaro is set as an action comedy about marital crises. The happy ending, Huguet knows, is a rotten spell: the next generation won't do any better.
The young cast, which includes Nadine Sierra, Elsa Dreisig, Gyula Orendt, and Riccardo Fassi, embraces this interpretation with immense enthusiasm.
Opera buffa in four acts
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, after La folle journée ou le mariage de Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais
Artistic team
Conductor | Daniel Barenboim
Stage director | Vincent Huguet
Set design | Aurélie Maestre
Costumes design | Clémence Pernoud
Lighting design | Irene Selka
Choreography | Thomas Wilhelm
Chorus master | Martin Wright
Playwright | Louis Geisler
Cast
Count of Almaviva | Gyula Orendt
Countess of Almaviva | Elsa Dreisig
Susanna | Nadine Sierra
Figaro | Riccardo Fassi
Cherubino | Emily D’Angelo
Marcellina |Katharina Kammerloher
Bartolo | Maurizio Muraro
Don Basilio | Stephan Rügamer
Don Curzio | Siegfried Jerusalem
Barbarina | Liubov Medvedeva
Antonio | David Oštrek
Staatskapelle Berlin
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