Le nozze di Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Director Liam Steel's Le nozze di
Figaro at Opera Holland Park is Upstairs
Downstairs meets Feydeau farce.
Le nozze or The Marriage of Figaro continues the characters story from The Barber of Seville. The Countess Rosina, beautifully sung by Elizabeth Llewellyn joins forces with her maid Susanna to outwit her womanising husband.
Count Almaviva ( George von Bergen) wants to reinstate droit du seigneur, a noble mans right to have the wedding night with any new bride. His current desire is Susanna who is about to marry Figaro(Matthew Hargreaves), now head of Almaviva's staff.
Designed by Emma Wee, the action is now set in an Edwardian house complete with dancing maids. Also part of the fun includes hiding the amorous page Cherubino (Hannah Pedley) to avoid the Count's wrath, and discovering that the woman the Count wants Figaro to marry instead of Susanna is actually his mother.
This production sees Susanna taken on gamely by Jane Harrington who replaced Claire Meghnagi at very short notice. But this last minute change doesn't show. With exquisite harpischord, Mozart's score was performed by the City of London Sinfonia under the baton of Matthew Willis. The production seemed an appropriate choice as opposed to the more rarely performed works that make up part of their program.
Le nozze or The Marriage of Figaro continues the characters story from The Barber of Seville. The Countess Rosina, beautifully sung by Elizabeth Llewellyn joins forces with her maid Susanna to outwit her womanising husband.
Count Almaviva ( George von Bergen) wants to reinstate droit du seigneur, a noble mans right to have the wedding night with any new bride. His current desire is Susanna who is about to marry Figaro(Matthew Hargreaves), now head of Almaviva's staff.
Designed by Emma Wee, the action is now set in an Edwardian house complete with dancing maids. Also part of the fun includes hiding the amorous page Cherubino (Hannah Pedley) to avoid the Count's wrath, and discovering that the woman the Count wants Figaro to marry instead of Susanna is actually his mother.
This production sees Susanna taken on gamely by Jane Harrington who replaced Claire Meghnagi at very short notice. But this last minute change doesn't show. With exquisite harpischord, Mozart's score was performed by the City of London Sinfonia under the baton of Matthew Willis. The production seemed an appropriate choice as opposed to the more rarely performed works that make up part of their program.
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