10/13/12 – Marriage of Figaro – 1:00pm
San Francisco Opera
Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sung in Italian
Approximate running time: 3 hours, 30 minutes including one intermission
A carnally minded count, his neglected wife, their wily servants and a young page who falls in love with every woman he sees: Mozart’s greatest comedy contains a cornucopia of wonderfully flawed and human characters who will amuse and delight you. SopranoDanielle de Niese “has a voice made for Mozart: bright, beautiful, agile and creamy” (National Public Radio). The “charismatic, vocally robust young Italian bass Luca Pisaroni…is an impulsive and charming Figaro” (The New York Times).
Music Director Nicola Luisotti conducts this perfectly cast production with glamorous soprano Ellie Dehn as the Countess and former Adler Fellow Lucas Meachem as her philandering husband.
Cast/Crew
FIGARO – LUCA PISARONI
SUSANNA – DANIELLE DE NIESE *
COUNTESS ALMAVIVA – ELLIE DEHN *
CHERUBINO – MICHÈLE LOSIER *
COUNT ALMAVIVA – LUCAS MEACHEM
MARCELLINA – CATHERINE COOK
DON BASILIO – GREG FEDDERLY
DOCTOR BARTOLO – DALE TRAVIS
DON CURZIO – ROBERT MACNEIL
DIRECTOR – JOHN COPLEY
CONDUCTOR – NICOLA LUISOTTI
Recorded Fall 2010, War Memorial Opera House.
* SAN FRANCISCO OPERA DEBUT
photos: Cory Weaver
