Season

What is this thing called love?

Imagine protecting your fiancée from a lecherous rival, finding your long-lost son, and healing an ailing marriage – all in one day! Most of us would pull out our hair, but this is Mozart, and on Figaro’s dizzying wedding day, love is in the air, behind a door, under a chair, and in everyone’s hearts. And you thought your wedding day was chaotic.
Learn more: attend pre-opera talks, one hour before each performance; free to all ticketholders.

    Saturday, April 24, 2010
    Tuesday, April 27, 2010
    Friday, April 30, 2010
    Sunday, May 2, 2010

All shows at the Benedum Center
Sung in Italian with English translations projected above the stage
Estimated performance time: 3 hours and 15 minutes, including one intermission

Read The Full Story
Cast and Artistic Team
Music from The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro Videos
Free Meet the Artists, Tuesday, April 27

Cast and Artistic Team

(cast is listed in order of vocal appearance)

Figaro: Oren Gradus**
Susanna: Sari Gruber
Dr. Bartolo: Kevin Glavin**
Marcellina: Lindsay Ammann*
Cherubino: Zheng Cao
Don Basilio/Curzio: Joseph Gaines
Count Almaviva: Michael Todd Simpson
Countess: Pamela Armstrong
Antonio: Liam Moran*
Barbarina: Lara Lynn Cottrill+

Mozart loved an ensemble cast! Sari Gruber, as Susanna, and Oren Gradus as her true love Figaro, manage to stay together throughout all the hubbub; Pamela Armstrong and Michael Todd Simpson, as the Count and Countess, reconcile sweetly. Kevin Glavin and Joseph Gaines add comic verve as Bartolo and Basilio.

Conductor: Gary Thor Wedow
Stage Director: Kristine McIntyre
Composer: Wolfgang A. Mozart
Librettist: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Set Designer: Benoit Dugardyn
Costume Designer: Johann Stegmeir
Lighting Designer: Andrew Ostrowski
Hair & Makeup Designer: James Geier
Assistant Conductor: Glenn Lewis
Principal Coach: Glenn Lewis
Chorus Master: Mark Trawka
Accompanist: James Lesniak
Stage Manager: Christine Schott
Assistant Stage Director: TBA