Houston Grand Opera’s upcoming production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” represents an excellent opportunity for opera newcomers to start at the top. To artistic and music director Patrick ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Scored by an Austrian, set in Spain, sung in Italian, and based on a French play, no opera could be more European than Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” and ...

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.

An opera in which the servants outclass the masters and women outsmart the men, the Mozart/Da Ponte classic The Marriage of Figaro has been a gold mine for directors interested in class struggle and ...

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Oliver Platt’s anachronistic take on Mozart’s comedy works well in OHP’s opening production, with superb ensemble performances If you go to Opera Holland Park this summer, you may well find yourself ...

Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro is in the soprano’s DNA, but she’s never thought about directing it. Creating her own production has been daunting and fascinating – and her son’s building blocks even ...

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 ...

Barbara Gaines was giving me a peek at the luminous set and sumptuous costumes that grace her new production of “The Marriage of Figaro,” which will open the Lyric Opera season Saturday night at the ...