For more than 200 years, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” have been among the best-known operas in the world, with comical stories and lively music ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Sarasota Opera will open Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro ...

WHEN: 8 p.m. Thursday, July 31; Monday, Aug. 4; Saturday, Aug. 9; Tuesday, Aug. 12; Saturday, Aug. 16; Friday, Aug. 22. WHERE: Santa Fe Opera, 301 Opera Drive, Santa ...

Imagine a cocktail-drinking, cigarette-smoking Don Draper as Figaro. By his side is his betrothed, Susanna, dressed and coifed as Betty Draper. LSU Opera Director Dugg McDonough envisioned it, and now ...

Count Aspen Opera Theater’s production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” a success, thanks in large part to splendid conducting by Jane Glover. In the first of three performances Tuesday night in the ...

When it comes to Mozart’s opera "The Marriage of Figaro," Adam Plachetka has sung both of its leading male roles: Figaro and Count Almaviva. And when the Czech bass-baritone finishes his three-day run ...

Just listening to the effervescent overture that launches Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” is enough to set the pulse racing. What a great score: one hit after another, especially when displayed in a ...

Figaro Unbound will offer a range of programming for all ages. Additional events and activities may be added during the celebration. Go to www.laopera.org ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Joana Mallwitz is in calm, stylish command making her debut with Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” running in repertory with “The ...

Opera is impossible and always has been. The operatic ideal, an imagined union of all the human senses and all art forms—music, drama, dance, poetry, painting—is unattainable by its very nature. This ...

Suffice to say that Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte weren’t thinking about Proposition 8 when they composed “The Marriage of Figaro.” The 1786 comic opera follows bullying Count Almaviva’s ...