
Servants Figaro and Susanna are filled with excitement on their wedding day, but theres a. This event is part of the Summer 2018/19 season. The Royal Opera House: The Marriage of Figaro BBFC Rating: (12A). Royal Opera House, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD Season Mozart's great comic opera of intrigue, misunderstanding and forgiveness returns with Christian Gerhaher and Simon Keenlyside as the clever Figaro and his aristocratic master.Not on sale Writers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lorenzo.

The scene in which Susanna and the Countess strip and re-clothe Cherubino should be sexier, but most of the farcical moments work delightfully.The Marriage of Figaro: Thursday 4 July 2019, 7pm Ellie Dehn Kate Lindsey Carlo Lepore Krystian Adam Royal Opera Chorus Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Hanna Hipp makes a nicely boyish Cherubino, Gianluca Buratto’s Bartolo has a voice like thunder, and the central foursome is completed with a Countess (Federica Lombardi) who comes over as the embattled voice of truth, and a Count (Germán E Alcántara) who offers an unusually dark interpretation of his predatory role. Under Antonio Pappano’s musical direction, this new revival spins exhilaratingly along, with a forceful and versatile Figaro (Riccardo Fassi) and a Susanna (Giulia Semenzato) who commands the stage with a live-wire presence and a sound of exceptional purity. Since droit de seigneur was very much an issue in 1786, the opera originally spoke to current concerns its relevance to the me-too generation needs no stressing. The Count is sexually insatiable, while his put-upon wife longs to recover the purity of their youthful love practical young Susanna can’t wait to marry, while poor mixed-up Cherubino is hopelessly in love with love itself.

The overture is set among domestics at an 1830s chateau (Photo: Clive Barda/ROH)


Like an expert clockmaker, McVicar sets the wheels of deception-within-deception turning so fast, yet so surely, that we don’t miss a beat in the essay on love in all its forms which powers the plot. Kinuose nuo Royal Opera House The Marriage of Figaro Royal Opera House 'The Marriage of Figaro' N7 Anonsas irti visk Servants Figaro and Susanna are filled with excitement on their wedding day, but there’s a hitch: their employer, the Count Almaviva, has dishonourable intentions of his own towards the bride-to-be. presence endows Figaro’s wit and wiles with convincing self-possession but, he also playfully punctures the factotum’s smugness.
