The Virginia Opera scored a home run Saturday evening when it brought back Mozart’s always-popular “The Marriage of Figaro.” Acknowledged as one of opera’s supreme masterpieces, “Figaro” is the ultimate ensemble work. While any of...
In Mozart’s comic opera “The Marriage of Figaro,” the title character and his betrothed, Susanna, go to great lengths to remove obstacles to their love. By contrast, when bass-baritone Matthew Burns and soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird first played...
The Mozart opera that runs just four performances at the Harrison Opera House really shouldn’t be called The Marriage of Figaro, stage director Lillian Groag points out. “Figaro’s Wedding Day” would be a better translation of Le nozze di Figaro. The full name of the...
The word “genius” gets tossed around a lot in the music world, but most agree that Wolfgang A. Mozart deserves the accolade. Conductor Steven Smith and stage director Lillian Groag, who are collaborating on Mozart’s “The Marriage of...
Virginia Opera, The Official Opera Company of the Commonwealth of Virginia, announces the role of Countess Almaviva in their upcoming production of ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ will be sung by soprano Katherine Whyte. Yunah Lee was previously announced in the role, but...
