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Wolfgang A. Mozart • Le nozze di Figaro

Opera buffa in four acts K. 492

Renewal
In Italian with German and English surtitles

Length of performance: approx. 3 hours and 45 minutes.

PREMIERE

27 July 2011, 20:00

DATE

30 July 2011, 19:00
04 August 2011, 19:00
11 August 2011, 19:00
13 August 2011, 15:00

VENUE

Haus für Mozart

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LEADING TEAM

Robin Ticciati, Conductor
Claus Guth, Stage Director
Christian Schmidt, Set and Costume Design
Olaf Winter, Lighting
Ronny Dietrich, Dramaturgy
Ramses Sigl, Choreography
Andi A. Müller, Video
Jörn Hinnerk Andresen, Chorus Master

CAST

Simon Keenlyside, Il Conte Almaviva
Genia Kühmeier, La Contessa Almaviva
Marlis Petersen, Susanna
Erwin Schrott, Figaro
Katija Dragojevic, Cherubino
Marie McLaughlin, Marcellina
Franz-Josef Selig, Bartolo
Patrick Henckens, Basilio
Malin Christensson, Barbarina
Oliver Ringelhahn, Don Curzio
Adam Plachetka, Antonio
Uli Kirsch, Cherubino
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

With Le nozze di Figaro Mozart created a world theater of human passions that testifies to the elemental force of eroticism. All forms of love and desire are found in this opera, and the four generations of characters – presented in exemplary fashion – are completely torn between morality, desire and impulse. In Figaro Mozart not only allows all kinds of intense human passions but also portrays how they can get out of control and escalate to extremes, thus setting his opera far apart from the comedy by Beaumarchais.
That was why I wanted on the one hand to follow the characters into their darkest psychological depths, but at the same time leave space for exploring the utopian moments in Mozart’s music, which for me are so special in the score of Figaro. An invented character, a kind of Eros-Angel, indicates this confusing other dimension that pervades the opera. He always appears when the characters find themselves in situations that are diametrically opposed to their intentions when guided by reason.

Claus Guth

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