It's about money, power, pleasure, letters, intrigue, disguises, the army and the question of who wears the pants in the power structure of relationships and who just flexes their muscles. - Also, but only in passing.
Based on the second part of the Figaro trilogy by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte transformed a biting social comedy into a witty opera in which all the emotional and deceitful registers are pulled out. And so Figaro and Susanna's simple request to simply get married sets a ball rolling that takes everything with it, calls existing relationships into question and has to end up in court before it goes to the justice of the peace.
Did you know? The word "nozze" (wedding) is sung a total of eleven times in Mozart's opera. As little as that may seem in a two-and-a-half-hour work, there are so many variations on the marriage vows being negotiated on stage here. It is about love marriages, wild marriages, married couples, marriage beds, marriage contracts, premarital sex, extramarital affairs, illegitimate children, marital crises, adultery and even a couple on stage enters the sacred state of marriage.
Premiere May 10, 2025
Further performances: May 17, 25 and 30, June 8 and 15, 2025
