Opera on 3: Le Nozze di Figaro

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Opera on 3: Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro

Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro

Daniele Rustioni conducts Mozart's timeless comedy from the New York Metropolitan Opera.

From the New York Metropolitan Opera, Ryan McKinny takes the title role of Figaro, with Lucy Crowe as his wife-to-be Susanna and Adam Plachetka as the philandering count.

The philandering Count Almaviva is determined to enjoy his droit de seigneur with Susanna, his valet Figaro's betrothed, on her wedding day. But the humiliated countess is equally determined to expose and embarrass the count, enlisting the help of Susanna and Figaro to do so. And then there's the cross-dressed, cross-dressing mass of raging adolescent hormones that is Cherubino, who is determined to try it on with anything that moves...

In one of the greatest operas of all time and under the guise of comedy, Mozart holds up the iniquities of society and the ambiguities of life to his unerring gaze.

As ever, the Met has assembled a starry international cast, including Lucy Crowe and Ryan McKinny as the young couple and Adam Plachetka and Golda Schultz as the count and countess.

Introduced by Debra Lew Harder in conversation with Ira Siff.

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Acts 1 & 2

8.10 pm
Interval
Including backstage interviews, archive clips, commentary and more.

8.35 pm
Acts 3 & 4 

Susanna ..... Lucy Crowe (soprano)
Figaro ..... Ryan McKinny (bass-baritone)
Countess Almaviva ..... Golda Schultz (soprano)
Count Almaviva ..... Adam Plachetka (baritone)
Cherubino ..... Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano)
Marcellina …… Elizabeth Bishop (mezzo-soprano)
Don Basilio …… Giuseppe Filianoti (tenor)
Dr. Bartolo …… Maurizio Muraro (bass)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni (conductor)

Image: ©Chris Lee / Met Opera

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