Le nozze di Figaro - Opera - Season 22/23 Programming - Opéra national de Paris

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    Le nozze di Figaro

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Palais Garnier - from 23 November to 28 December 2022

    Vincent Pontet / OnP

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Le nozze di Figaro

Palais Garnier - from 23 November to 28 December 2022

Opera

Le nozze di Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Palais Garnier - from 23 November to 28 December 2022

3h25 with 1 interval

Language : Italian

Surtitle : French / English

  • Opening night : 23 Nov. 2022

About

In few words:

Le Nozze di Figaro is one of the repertoire's most emblematic works. Brahms spoke of it as a “miracle” and the Countess’s lament resounds even today as one of the most heart‑breaking passages in musical history. It was in taking up Beaumarchais’ comedy, a play that sparked off a scandal in Parisian society, that Mozart and his librettist, da Ponte, began their collaboration, although the play had already been forbidden by the Emperor Joseph II at the Vienna theatre in 1785. Was this because it exposed all too publicly the contradictions of an already tottering regime, soon to be swept away by the French Revolution? Neita Jones’s new production conserves the essence of Beaumarchais’s play, questioning human relationships with mischievous humour in a production that confuses reality and fiction to such an extent that, like the Count, we wonder, “Are we acting out a play?”

CHARACTERS

The Count: Seducer of Susanna and jealous husband

The Countess: The Count’s wife, tormented by her husband’s deceptions
Susanna: The Countess’s chambermaid, Figaro’s fiancée, Cherubino’s accomplice
Figaro: The Count’s valet, engaged to Susanna
Cherubino: The Count’s page, ingenuous young man in love with the Countess
Marcellina: Housekeeper
Bartolo: Doctor from Seville
Don Basilio: Master of music
Don Curzio: Judge
Barbarina: The gardener’s daughter and Susanna’s cousin
Antonio: The Count’s gardener and Susanna’s uncle

  • Opening
  • First part 95 mn
  • Intermission 35 mn
  • Second part 75 mn
  • End

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Audio clips

Les Noces de Figaro (saison 22/23)- Ilanah Lobel-Torres

Les Noces de Figaro (saison 22/23) - James Creswell

Les Noces de Figaro (saison 22/23) - Jeanine De Bique

Les Noces de Figaro (saison 22/23)- Luca Pisaroni

Backstage

  • The intendant, the singer, the dresser

    Video

    The intendant, the singer, the dresser

  • Podcast Les Noces de Figaro

    Podcast

    Podcast Les Noces de Figaro

  • “I think I very much am Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro”

    Video

    “I think I very much am Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro”

  • Draw-me Les Nozze di Figaro

    Video

    Draw-me Les Nozze di Figaro

  • The Theatre within the Theatre

    Video

    The Theatre within the Theatre

  • The Magic of Mozart

    Video

    The Magic of Mozart

© Charles Duprat / OnP

The intendant, the singer, the dresser

09:53’

Video

The intendant, the singer, the dresser

Interview with Gerald Finley about the Count of Le nozze di Figaro

By Marion Mirande

In 2003, in the Giorgio Strehler's production of Le nozze di Figaro, the Canadian bass-baritone played the title role and, for a single performance, Count Almaviva. It is the latter costume that he puts on today in this folle journée whose theatrical and proto-feminist essence is underlined by Netia Jones' direction.

© Vincent Pontet / OnP

Podcast Les Noces de Figaro

Podcast

Podcast Les Noces de Figaro

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique

By Charlotte Landru-Chandès

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" offers original incursions into the season thanks to broadcasts produced by France Musique and the Paris Opera. For each opera or ballet production, Charlotte Landru-Chandès (opera) and Jean-Baptiste Urbain (dance), present the works and artists you are going to discover when you attend performances in our theatres.

“I think I very much am Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro”

01’

Video

“I think I very much am Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro”

Interview with Jeanine De Bique

By Isabelle Stibbe

For her first Susanna at the Paris Opera in Le Nozze di Figaro, soprano Jeanine De Bique discusses her role and Netia Jones’ staging.  

Draw-me Les Nozze di Figaro

01:45’

Video

Draw-me Les Nozze di Figaro

Understand the plot in 1 minute

By Octave

The Marriage of Figaro is one of the repertoire’s most iconic works. Brahms spoke of it as a “miracle” and the Countess’s lament remains one of the most heart-rending musical pages of all time. By taking up Beaumarchais’ comedy, which had caused a scandal to shake Parisian society, Mozart and Da Ponte’s success was secured. The play had even been banned by Joseph II in 1785 at Theatre of Vienna. Did it shine too much light on the contradictions of an already faltering regime, ready to collapse with the French Revolution? Netia Jones’ new production retains the very essence of Beaumarchais’ play as she humorously yet mischievously explores human relationships in a universe that confuses reality and fiction to the point of asking, like the Count: “Are we playing in a comedy?”

© Vincent Pontet / OnP

The Theatre within the Theatre

06:27’

Video

The Theatre within the Theatre

Netia Jones and Alexander Neef discuss The Marriage of Figaro

By Coline Delreux

In 2022, invited for the first time to the Paris Opera, stage director Netia Jones proposed a new production of The Marriage of Figaro. Alexander Neef and Netia Jones discuss the director's choice to transpose the action of one of the most popular operas of the repertoire in a theater, to the present day. A way of holding up a mirror to us and examining, among other things, women's status and the social and hierarchical structures at play in Beaumarchais' play and which survive to this day.  

The Magic of Mozart

05:34’

Video

The Magic of Mozart

Interview with Gustavo Dudamel

By Marion Mirande

Invited for the first time to the Paris Opera, Netia Jones presents a new production of Le Nozze du Figaro, for which she has also created the sets, costumes and videos. Beaumarchais' play lies at the heart of this masterpiece by Mozart and Da Ponte. Between a perfectly constructed theatrical plot and profoundly contemporary situations and characters, the director explores the fine line between reality and fiction, and reminds us of our own questions and aspirations.    

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