Until May 12th, Madrid’s Teatro Real will offer 13 performances of The Marriage of Figaro, in the iconic production created by Claus Guth for the Salzburg Festival in 2006 and revived by the Canadian Opera Company.
The characters in this choral opera, corseted in austere costumes, defining their social status, wander through an old aristocratic palace, where they live unconfessable relationships that hide bonds of seduction, love, desire, passion, weariness or resentment, which the spectator perceives with the help of a mysterious ‘angel’, who, as he passes by, inquires into what lies beneath love relationships in a closed and decadent world.
Ivor Bolton, who conducts his seventh operatic production of Mozart at the Teatro Real, repeating The Marriage of Figaro, after the success of 2014, will be at the helm of the Teatro Real’s Titular Chorus and Orchestra and a double cast featuring: Andrè Schuen and Joan Martín-Royo (Count of Almaviva), María José Moreno and Miren Urbieta-Vega (Countess of Almaviva), Julie Fuchs and Elena Sancho Pereg (Susanna), Vito Priante and Thomas Oliemans (Figaro), and Rachael Wilson and Maite Beaumont (Cherubino). Tickets can be purchased at this link.
