Le Nozze di Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro
Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Witty, wicked and surprising: Mozart, the great connoisseur of human nature, with his most humorous and at the same time most political opera! In his music, every heartbeat, every breathlessness can be experienced - and there is plenty of that in Figaro. For in Count Almaviva's castle, the plaster is crumbling. The social façade and the relationship between the sexes are showing deep cracks and not everything is as beautiful as it seems. The chambermaid Susanna's dilemma: how can she make it to her wedding with valet Figaro without having to go to bed with the Count on the way? But is the Count really the womanizer he is made out to be? And is Figaro really the right man for Susanna - or is he not actually a selfish opportunist?

Director Lydia Steier and her team expose the originally revolutionary aspect of the work - preventing the Count's abuse of power - as an empty assertion of a frustrated society that has settled into the system.