Le nozze di Figaro

Les Noces de Figaro - Netia Jones

• Conductor

  Louis Langrée

• Libretto

  Lorenzo Da Ponte

• Music

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  (1756-1791)

• Director

  Netia Jones

• Set design

  Netia Jones

• Costume design

  Netia Jones

• Video

  Netia Jones

• Lighting

  Lucy Carter

• Choreography

  Sophie Laplane

• Directoc collaboration

  Glen Sheppard

• Dramaturgy

  Solène Souriau

• Video collaborator

  Ian Winters & Lightmap

• Chorus master

  Alessandro Di Stefano

Le Nozze di Figaro is one of the repertoire's most emblematic works. Brahms spoke of it as a “miracle” and the Countess’s lament resounds even today as one of the most heart‑breaking passages in musical history. It was in taking up Beaumarchais’ comedy, a play that sparked off a scandal in Parisian society, that Mozart and his librettist, da Ponte, began their collaboration, although the play had already been forbidden by the Emperor Joseph II at the Vienna theatre in 1785. Was this because it exposed all too publicly the contradictions of an already tottering regime, soon to be swept away by the French Revolution? Neita Jones’s new production conserves the essence of Beaumarchais’s play, questioning human relationships with mischievous humour in a production that confuses reality and fiction to such an extent that, like the Count, we wonder, “Are we acting out a play?”

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

Le nozze di Figaro

Les Noces de Figaro - Netia Jones

• Il conte di Almaviva

  Gerald Finley

• La contessa di Almaviva

  Miah Persson

• Figaro

  Luca Pisaroni

• Susanna

  Jeanine De Bique

• Cherubino

  Rachel Frenkel

• Marcellina

  Sophie Koch

• Bartolo

  James Creswell

• Don Basilio

  Éric Huchet

• Don Curzio

  Christophe Mortagne

• Barbarina

  Ilanah Lobel-Torres

• Antonio

  Franck Leguérinel

• Due Donne

  Boglárka Brindás

• Teona Todua