Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

Impressive production, marvellous singing
Much like their recent production of Don Giovanni, Glyndebourne's 2012 production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro updates the work to the 1960s, finding it to be a period that acts as a good modern equivalent for the changing social attitudes that are to be found in Mozart and Beaumarchais' time. If it's not quite a perfect fit here, it works well enough for the purposes of Mozart's version of the work, which is less concerned with the social and political climate than the richness of human values that the work expresses. What is rather more important in Le nozze di Figaro then is how its characters are brought to life, and it's clear from the superb casting here and the fine singing, that this is the principal strength of Glyndebourne's new production.

You can set the opera in just about any period then and get away with it, even with its references to 'droit de seigneur'. There have always been sleazy bosses after all, and the 1960s is as good a setting then as any. The...

This Figaro is a keeper
Excellent cast who sing well[especialy Sally Matthews]
The acting is really natural and the characters are endearing.
The Director did not get in the way of the performance.

Splendid
Belle musique, bonne mise-en-scène, grands chanteurs, Isabelle Léonard parfaite. Un très bel opéra, on voudrait aller à Glyndenbourne pour voir un spectacle de cette qualité.

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