This Mozart opera was based on a play by Beaumarchais and is in fact a sequel to ‘The Barber of Seville’. With the seething political and erotic intrigues surrounding the story of the marital crisis of Count Almaviva and his wife, ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ was banned when it first came out in 1786. Unsurprisingly, this production does not face these threats and thus leaves director Jurgen Flimm and musical director Edo de Waart to focus on bringing out the piece’s intrinsic balance of humour and tragedy.
