The Marriage of Figaro

One of the top 10 operas to see during your lifetime!

Sacramento Opera hits high note with Figaro, Sacramento Bee Review

Read the Sacramento Opera’s Marriage of Figaro Program Book

Looking for a taste of The Marriage of Figaro? Sacramento Opera artistic director, Timm Rolek, suggests this video excerpt featuring Lucia Popp and this clip from a Metropolitan Opera production.

The Marriage of Figaro
Opera buffa in four acts
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Friday, February 27, 2009 at 8 pm
Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 2 pm
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Sacramento Community Center Theater
1301 L Street, Sacramento

Setting: Aguasfrescas near Seville, the Almavivas’ country house, 1786

A cornerstone of the operatic repertoire, The Marriage of Figaro was one of Mozart’s most successful works. Based on a once banned stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, this brilliant opera gives us a miraculous marriage of music and drama in a sublime comedy of manners, as touching as it is funny.

First performed Vienna, Burgtheater, May 1, 1786

Conductor	Timm Rolek
Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra
Stage Director	Rick Harrell
Figaro	Bojan Knezevich
Count	Malcolm MacKenzie
Countess	Emily Pulley
Susannah	Robin Fisher
Cherubino	Sarah Kleeman
Marcellina	Donna Olson
Bartolo	Burr Phillips
Curzio	Jonathan Hansen
Basilio	Daniel Ebbers
Antonio	Jason Sarten
Barberina	Carrie Hennessey

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