This spring, the Met presents a pair of masterpieces that define operatic comedy: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Featuring some of today’s most dynamic young stars ...

Audience members were greeted by a familiar sight as they took their seats Saturday night for the first performance of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in The Santa Fe Opera’s new season: a stage studded ...

Mariusz Kwiecien (Count Almaviva) sets about seducing Eri Nakamura's fiesty Susanna in David McVicar's 'Le nozze di Figaro'Barda Now on its second revival, David McVicar’s ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

In this perspective, we have to gaze hard at the abuse of power – by men over women, the rich over the poor, even the smart over the simple – as it shows its brutal as well as its seductive face. And ...

Much has been made of director David McVicar’s decision to update Le nozze di Figaro by half a century, apparently linking the humiliation of Count Almaviva to the fall of the Bourbons in 1830. In ...