THUMBNAIL SKETCH: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO recounts a single day of farce – the wedding day of two servants, Figaro, servant to the Count, and his bride-to-be Susanna, servant to the Countess. As they ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. It’s the day of the wedding at the palace, and ...

Opera Santa Barbara’s (OSB) next production will be “The Marriage of Figaro” (1786), with music by Wolfgang Mozart, and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on the 1784 play of the same name by ...

Imagine a cocktail-drinking, cigarette-smoking Don Draper as Figaro. By his side is his betrothed, Susanna, dressed and coifed as Betty Draper. LSU Opera Director Dugg McDonough envisioned it, and now ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. September marks two years since Opera ...

As far as opera director Ian Rutherford is concerned, The Marriage of Figaro has “possibly the greatest Act II of opera and musical theater that was ever created and the greatest libretto ever written ...

In 2015, director Barbara Gaines’ Lyric Opera production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” became the first production of Anthony Freud’s formal tenure as Lyric’s general director.

A hokey, old-fashioned painted curtain covering the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage was not an encouraging first sight. The vivacious overture conducted with grace and fluidity did, on the other hand, ...

Maybe it’s because of the prevalence of male toxicity, hypocrisy and entitlement in the news lately, but the battle-of-the-sexes aspect of Mozart’s opera “The Marriage of Figaro” never seemed more ...

Let no one call these nuptials a “marriage of convenience.” Ending a season of pandemic mayhem with the greatest classical opera buffa (and many say the greatest opera, period) requires crowd control ...

For the latest musical film in his “Live from Florence” series, playwright-pianist Hershey Felder has given fans of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart a unique fly-one-the-wall look at how the composer’s ...

A Houston Grand Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro that abounds with scene stealers. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane It isn’t the spiffy red and yellow Italian sports car (an Alfa Romeo, maybe) ...