Le nozze di Figaro

Resource Information

The work Le nozze di Figaro represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Le nozze di Figaro

Statement of responsibility

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Title variation

Marriage of Figaro

Contributor

• Veira, Jonathan,
• Opus Arte (Firm)
• Royal Opera House (London, England),
• Araya, Graciela,
• Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799
• Constable, Paule
• Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838,
• Finley, Gerald, 1960-
• Haswell, Jonathan
• Hausman, Leah
• Langridge, Philip, 1939-2010,
• McCallin, Tanya
• McVicar, David
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
• Pappano, Antonio, 1959-
• Persson, Miah,
• Röschmann, Dorothea,
• Schrott, Erwin,
• Shaham, Rinat,

Conductor

• Pappano, Antonio, 1959-

Librettist

• Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838,

Performer

• Persson, Miah,
• Langridge, Philip, 1939-2010,
• Royal Opera House (London, England),
• Araya, Graciela,
• Finley, Gerald, 1960-
• Röschmann, Dorothea,
• Schrott, Erwin,
• Shaham, Rinat,
• Veira, Jonathan,

Subject

• Video recordings
• Videorecording
• Operas
• Marriage in opera -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Musical films
• Drama
• Music videos

Genre

• Drama
• Musical films
• Music videos
• Video recordings

Language

• ita
• eng
• fre
• ger
• spa
• ita
• ita
• ita

Summary

Preparing for their wedding, the valet Figaro learns from the maid Susanna that their philandering employer, Count Almaviva, has designs on her. In her boudoir, the Countess laments her husband's waning love but plots to chasten him, encouraged by Figaro and Susanna. Susanna leads the Count on with promises of a rendezvous in the garden. Alone later that day, Susanna rhapsodizes on her love for Figaro, but he, overhearing, thinks she means the Count. Almaviva chases Cherubino away and sends his wife, who he thinks is Susanna, to an arbor, to which he follows. By now Figaro understands the joke and, joining the fun, makes exaggerated love to Susanna in her Countess disguise. The Count returns, seeing, or so he thinks, Figaro with his wife. Outraged, he calls everyone to witness his judgment, but now the real Countess appears and reveals the ruse. Grasping the truth at last, the Count begs her pardon

Cataloging source

CIN

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Stage director, David McVicar; set and costume design, Tanya McCallin; lighting, Paule Constable; movement director, Leah Hausman; television director, Jonathan Haswell

Date time place

Filmed Feb. 10, 13, 17, 2006, The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Language note

Sung in Italian; subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian

PerformerNote

Erwin Schrott (Figaro) ; Miah Persson (Susanna) ; Gerald Finley (Count Almaviva) ; Dorothea Röschmann (Countess Almaviva) ; Rinat Shaham (Cherubino) ; Jonathan Veira (Dr. Bartolo) ; Graciela Araya (Marcellina) ; Philip Langridge (Don Basilio) ; supporting soloists ; Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House ; Antonio Pappano, conductor

Runtime

202

Technique

live action