Le nozze di Figaro – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Programme – Season 2018/19
€8.00
Le nozze di Figaro, the first of Mozart’s three operas to a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, returned to the Greek National Opera in March 2019, conducted by Marios Papadopoulos and Giorgos Balatsinos and directed by Alexandros Efklidis.
Based on Beaumarchais’s comedy La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro, the work was first presented in Vienna in 1786, a few years before the French Revolution. The libretto reflects the era’s unrest and the tension in the relations between different social classes: on the one hand the count and the countess and on the other hand their servants, Susanna and Figaro. Mozart’s masterly music outlines each character by simple means. But above all, it is a work whose characters are principally humane, with all their aspects, both positive and dark ones, equally brought out into the light.
