Glyndebourne and Figaro: a perfect marriage. Often cited as the greatest opera ever written, ... (The Marriage of Figaro) has a rich history with Glyndebourne dating back 80 years.

Any survey of Figaro on record has to start with Glyndebourne: four versions on CD and two (which I shall come to later) on DVD. The Fritz Busch recording was the first ever of a Mozart opera: it’s ...

Live from Glyndebourne 1994. The first production to be filmed Live in Glyndebourne´s new opera house May 1994. The Marriage of Figaro is a continuation of the plot of The Barber of Seville ...

Mozart, indeed, has been a guiding spirit for his career; he’s sung Figaro almost 250 times for companies from the Vienna State Opera to Glyndebourne and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, according to ...

On January 13, 2023, Houston Grand Opera kicks off its winter repertoire with Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage's vibrant production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which re-sets ...

Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro Somewhat unsurprisingly, one of the greatest operas ever written also gave us one of the greatest overtures ever written. Mozart’s comic masterpiece tells the story of ...

She credits Glyndebourne for the opportunity to step in as Sophie in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier in 2014, during the festival’s traditional visit to the Proms.

The Glyndebourne season continues until the end of August with a new production of Wagner’s Parsifal, Handel’s Saul, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (new production), Verdi‘s Falstaff and ...

Aptly prefiguring the festival’s production (opening next month) of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Glyndebourne presents The Marriage’s prequel. Rossini based his hit comic opera on the ...

"The Marriage of Figaro is the story of a working-class woman who gets the better of a privileged but dim-witted villain." Angela Rayner has accused Dominic Raab of “snobbery” after he made a ...

There hasn’t been a Barber at Glyndebourne since 1982, ... and his clever take on Mozart’s Marriage Of Figaro, which switches in an instant from the Sixties to the 18th century, ...