It's like this amazing wind-up music box of musical drama that plays out in perfect dramatic time." "The Marriage of Figaro" opens at the Santa Fe Opera on Saturday, June 28, and runs through Aug. 22.

The Marriage of Figaro will be performed March 8, 13, 16 (matinee), 19, 22 (matinee), 25, and 28. Evening performances begin at 7 p.m. and matinee performances begin at 1:30 p.m.

Figaro is a conduit to that happening and he’s given the job of being chief cook and bottle washer at the count’s estate. Those characters overlap, but that’s where it kind of ends for me ...

The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart’s beloved opera of amorous lovers, mistaken identities, and affairs of the heart, is replete with warmth, lyricism, and a touch of sweetness. Though there is ...

Mozart’s comic opera “The Marriage of Figaro” premiered in 1786, but its characters and situations — and humor — are as familiar to today’s audiences as anything in film or on television. It’s also ...

While the title card reads “Anthony Roth Costanzo *is * The Marriage of Figaro,” that is not strictly true. For the major ensembles, Costanzo sings atop with tracks of himself.

Five excellent actors play Figaro, Susanna, the Count, the Countess, Basilio and Antonio, lipsynching to Mr. Costanzo’s voice; Mr. Costanzo plays Cherubino whenever he is in the scene.

"Marriage of Figaro" is a sort of sequel to Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville." (Both are based on plays by Beaumarchais). It tells the ongoing story of Figaro who, no longer a barber, is 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 ...