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 ...

Imagine a cocktail-drinking, cigarette-smoking Don Draper as Figaro. By his side is his betrothed, Susanna, dressed and coifed as Betty Draper. LSU Opera Director Dugg McDonough envisioned it, and now ...

Opera Santa Barbara’s (OSB) next production will be “The Marriage of Figaro” (1786), with music by Wolfgang Mozart, and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on the 1784 play of the same name by ...

A hokey, old-fashioned painted curtain covering the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage was not an encouraging first sight. The vivacious overture conducted with grace and fluidity did, on the other hand, ...

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.

As far as opera director Ian Rutherford is concerned, The Marriage of Figaro has “possibly the greatest Act II of opera and musical theater that was ever created and the greatest libretto ever written ...

Music and mischief take the stage for one night Saturday, Oct. 4 as Amarillo Opera performs Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." The performance begins at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, for one night only at ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. San Francisco Opera presents Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Marriage of ...

The Marriage of Figaro is a comic opera in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on May ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s "The Marriage of Figaro" is a comic opera with some serious overtones. It has also inspired both revolution and Bugs Bunny. For some people, Bugs Bunny was the gateway drug ...

A Houston Grand Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro that abounds with scene stealers. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane It isn’t the spiffy red and yellow Italian sports car (an Alfa Romeo, maybe) ...