About the opera
- Run time: 3hrs 30min, 1 intermission
- Sung in: Italian
- Subtitles: English, Italian and other languages
- Opera house: Vienna State Opera
Le nozze di Figaro is considered by many to be Mozart's greatest opera and, arguably, the most perfect opera ever written. Uniting Mozart und librettist Lorenzo da Ponte for the first time, it combines breathtaking arias and ensembles with a strong, highly entertaining plot. Today, Le nozze di Figaro is a cornerstone of the opera repertoire.
Ticket information
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Vienna State Opera
Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna View in Google Maps
How to get there:
Subway: U1, U2, U4 to Karlsplatz
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 to Opernring
Conductor Ivor Bolton
Graf Almaviva Andrè Schuen
Gräfin Almaviva Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
Susanna Slávka Zámečníková
Figaro Peter Kellner
Cherubino Isabel Signoret
The son of a Salzburg court musician, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) showed prodigious ability from his earliest years. The young Mozart spent much of his childhood touring Europe with his father, performing before nobility. He went on to compose in all musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. Mozart's operas in particular represent the peak of his genius and remain unsurpassed in terms of beauty, vocal challenge and dramatic insight.
The opera is based on the comedy The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 –1799), one of the great self-made men of 18th-century Europe. Trained as a watchmaker, he rose through the ranks of French nobility to become a successful inventor, businessman, publisher and diplomat. Today Beaumarchais is best known, however, for his semi-autobiographical Figaro plays.
The libretto for Le nozze di Figaro was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838), a court poet and librettist in Vienna, who also collaborated with Mozart on his other Italian operas, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte.
