A wedding, a lecherous count, and Mozart's most delicious revenge comedy — chaos has never sounded this beautiful.
Servants Figaro and Susanna are filled with excitement on their wedding day, but there’s a hitch: their employer, the Count Almaviva, has dishonourable intentions of his own towards the bride-to-be. With more twists than a page boy’s stockings, the story of Mozart’s comic opera will surprise and delight you at every turn. Come for the music and stay for the cross-dressing hilarity, all unfolding over the course of one crazy, topsy-turvy day in the Almaviva household. Antonio Pappano conducts a truly international cast in David McVicar’s timeless production.
Direction
McVicar's 18th-century staging still feels dangerously alive.
Score
Pappano conducts with wit and warmth — every note breathes.
Acting
Stéphany's Cherubino steals scenes with pure hormonal electricity.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mozart and librettist Da Ponte adapted Beaumarchais' banned play — revolutionary France in musical form, smuggled past censors as 'comedy.'
The famous overture was written last, two days before premiere. Mozart partied the night before, overslept, and still delivered perfection.
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