Generations on, Lorenzo Da Ponte’s family keeps alive the memory of this poet and libertine, who ended up in the middle of Pennsylvania after being booted from Venice and Vienna.
Category: Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera)
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Their Forefather Was a Grocer and Mozart’s Most Important Librettist
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Review: Mozart’s ‘Figaro’ Meets Larry Kramer’s Fire Island
Kevin Carillo dreams up an unlikely combination, with results that are delirious and often persuasive, but also excessive.
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Lamps With Main Character Energy
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Mozart’s ‘Figaro’ and ‘Magic Flute’ at the Metropolitan Opera
Joana Mallwitz is in calm, stylish command making her debut with Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” running in repertory with “The Magic Flute.”
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The Conductor Joana Mallwitz Mixes Intensity With Approachability
Joana Mallwitz, one of Germany’s fastest rising stars, makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in “The Marriage of Figaro” on Monday.
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Review: This ‘Figaro’ Puts All Mozart’s Characters in One Voice
By singing men and women, nobles and servants, the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo takes the opera’s theme of human mutability to a chaotic extreme.
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A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’
The New York Times – Music:Raphaël Pichon has quickly become one of the most interesting conductors not just in his specialty of period instruments, but in classical music.