Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
An opera in four acts
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte (sung in Italian)

A concert version of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera production
Perhaps the greatest comic opera ever written, Figaro is a story about masters and their servants, and the complications arising out of their relationships with one another.

Glyndebourne Chorus, chorus director Peter Gellborn
Martin Isepp (harpsichord continuo)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, co-leader Dennis Simons, conducted by John Pritchard

Acts 1 and 2

9.0* A Question of Class?
Bernard Williams, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a passionate Mozartian, discusses the social and emotional complexities of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

9.20* Proms 74: part 2
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro Acts 3 and 4

(This Week's Proms: page 9)
(Another Mozart opera at the Proms: La Clemenza di Tito, conducted by Colin Davis - Tuesday, 3 September)