‘Largo al factotum’ is the spectacular entrance music for Figaro, the famous barber character in Rossini’s comic opera, The Barber of Seville. As the aria is the audience’s first introduction to the ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO recounts a single day of farce – the wedding day of two servants, Figaro, servant to the Count, and his bride-to-be Susanna, servant to the Countess. As they ...

Sarasota Opera will open Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro on Saturday, March 8. Commonly recognized as one of the great achievements of Western music, The Marriage of Figaro is admired ...

With a cast of 11 “name” roles and both lead and supporting characters frequently shuttling in and out of scenes, the plot of a three-hour opera can be a bit confusing at times. But in Mozart’s “The ...