Le nozze di Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Estates Theatre

Premiere: 9 February 2002

Musical preparation: Peter Feranec
Conductor: Tomáš Netopil / Jan Chalupecký
Director: Josef Průdek
Stage design: Ján Zavarský
Costumes: Eva Farkašová-Zálešáková
Choreography: Daniel Wiesner
Dramaturgy: Eva Petrášková
Chorus master: Pavel Vaněk / Martin Buchta

Figaro: František Zahradníček / Adam Plachetka
Il conte di Almaviva: Roman Janál / Martin Bárta / Vladimír Chmelo / Jiří Hájek
La contessa di Almaviva: Helena Kaupová / Jitka Svobodová / Pavla Vykopalová
Susanna: Martina Zadro / Kateřina Kněžíková / Marie Fajtová
Cherubino: Kateřina Jalovcová / Stanislava Jirků
Marcellina: Yvona Škvárová / Lenka Šmídová
Bartolo: Jiří Kalendovský / Luděk Vele / Zdeněk Plech
Basilio: Jaroslav Březina / Vladimír Doležal
Don Curzio: Václav Lemberk / Jiří Hruška
Antonio: Aleš Hendrych / Bohuslav Maršík
Barbarina: Alžběta Poláčková / Radka Sehnoutková
Ambrosio: Richard Renner / Jan Šváb
First bridesmaid: Blanka Sládková / Gabriela Brázdová
Second bridesmaid: Blanka Březinová / Věra Polednová / Gabriela Brázdová
Orchestra, Choir and Ballet of the National Theatre Opera

There are few operas with such bountiful and intricate action as Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). The secondary title of Beaumarchais’s stage comedy of the same name, “The Day of Madness”, fittingly encapsulates its nature. In this opera about jealousy and love, Mozart masterfully creates an entire gallery of main and minor characters dominated by the servant and wit Figaro, who with his fiancée, the chamber-maid Susanna, has the courage to stand up to the whimsicality and incorrigible woman-chasing of Count Almaviva.

Running time: 3 hours 15 minutes

The opera is staged in Italian original version and Czech and English surtitles are used in the performance.