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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: Glyndebourne Festival Opera conducted by Riccardo Minasi perform Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Mozart The Marriage of Figaro 170’
(semi-staged; sung in Italian)

Interval
During the interval the writer and broadcaster Flora Willson joins Andrew McGregor to discuss the genesis of Mozart's operatic setting of Da Ponte's libretto about the nuptials of the servant Figaro and his bride-to-be, Susanna.

Cast to include:

Tommaso Barea - Figaro
Huw Montague - Rendall Count
Louise Alder - Countess
Johanna Wallroth - Susanna
Alessandro Corbelli - Bartolo
Madeleine Shaw - Marcellina
Adèle Charvet - Cherubino
Elisabeth Boudreault- Barbarina
Alexander Vassiliev - Antonio
Vincent Ordonneau - Don Curzio
Robert Forrest Don Basilio

Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Riccardo Minasi conductor
Talia Stern director

There will be one interval

Love conquers all... doesn’t it? Mozart’s sexiest and sharpest comedy pits men against women and master against servant as it cuts to the heart of human nature. Cherubino pines for the Countess, who is devoted to the Count. But he has designs on Susanna, who only has eyes for Figaro. Mozart’s masterpiece of tangled desires, politics and identities comes fresh from the Glyndebourne Festival in the concert-staging of a brand-new production with a stellar cast, conducted by Ricardo Minasi.

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