Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro
- Saturday, May 3, 2025 @ 12:55 pm · get tickets
Leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s period comedy, bass- baritone Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite soprano Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins is the skirt-chasing Count, with soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife. Cherubino will now be sung by Sun-Ly Pierce, replacing Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page. Joana Mallwitz conducts.
Le Nozze di Figaro is a remarkable marriage of Mozart’s music at the height of his genius and one of the best libretti ever set. In adapting a play that caused a scandal with its revolutionary take on 18th-century society, librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte focused less on the original topical references and more on the timeless issues embedded in the frothy drawing-room comedy.
Mozart’s amazing score mirrors the complex world it depicts, balancing impressions of tremendous beauty and elegance, as well as the plot’s themes of underlying pain and deception.
