FIGAROS HOCHZEIT

In the organizer's words:

Count Almaviva is laughing up his sleeve: He allows his valet Figaro to marry the maid Susanna and generously accommodates the two of them next to his bedroom - so that he can better pursue the pretty Susanna. He quickly gets rid of the page Cherubino, who is also constantly flocking around the women, by sending him to the army. But he has not only done the math without Susanna and the jealous Figaro, but above all without his wife, the Countess.

Mozart's opera from 1786 was based on the comedy "La folle journée ou Le mariage de Figaro", which had premiered a few years earlier and became the greatest stage success of its author Beaumarchais. The bitter satire on the overbearing nobility became a beacon of the French Revolution. The congenial libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte also addresses issues such as boredom after the first years of marriage, betrayal of trust and female self-determination. State director Josef E. Köpplinger stages Mozart's classic with a good dose of poignancy and humor.