Mozart’s famous opera is a whirlwind comedy of betrothal, betrayal and deliciously bad behaviour. Set on a single day, it packs in a dazzling procession of madcap comic schemes and setbacks, all of ...

Many years ago, I brought a friend of mine to a Marriage of Figaro in my hometown of Ann Arbor. He was the captain of the University of Michigan golf team. After the overture, he turned to me and said ...

Whatever the pressures, there is not the slightest diminution of standards. I missed the pre-pandemic revival. But Hoehn has now cut out the overture stage business (no great loss), and the opera is ...

Audiences demanded so many encores at the Prague performances of Mozart's opera Marriage of Figaro, that the Emperor ordered a ban on repeating the big numbers. The Berlin Philharmonic plays the ...