Adapted from the 1784 play by Pierre Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro debuted at Vienna’s Burgtheater in 1786, and at the Portland Opera in 1971. Many players in this production made their ...

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 ...

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 ...