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 ...

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 ...

The crumbling English country house setting gives a radical twist to the opera’s complex social web ...

Sarasota Opera will open Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro on Saturday, March 8. Commonly recognized as one of the great achievements of Western music, The Marriage of Figaro is admired ...

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The revival of Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" that opened Tuesday night at the San Francisco Opera is one of those maddeningly enjoyable and forgettable undertakings that hit the War Memorial Opera ...

Scored by an Austrian, set in Spain, sung in Italian, and based on a French play, no opera could be more European than Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” and yet there’s a reason it is the most ...

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 ...

Last Saturday, I spent the day at the Getty Center at a one day study program hosted by The Getty in cooperation with LA Opera, “Luxury and Liberation: Art and Revolution in 18 th Century France,” ...

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 ...