Concert Version of Le Nozze di Figaro
NCPA Opera Festival & May Festival 2014
Venue： Multi-functional Theatre
Dates： May 18, 2014
Duration： approximate 105 mins intermission included
Price： 200/160/100 RMB
Figaro, a servant of the Count Almaviva and Susanna, a maid of the Countess Rosina are to get married. When Figaro is happily preparing for their wedding, Susanna tells him that the Count has an evil intent in giving them the new wedding room; it seems he has been making advances toward her and plans on exercising his 'droit du seigneur', the purported feudal right of a lord to bed a servant girl on her wedding night before her husband can sleep with her. The Count had the right abolished when he married Rosina, but he now wants to reinstate it. A light breaks in upon Figaro after he knows this, and they plan to expose his scheming. Marcellina, the old housekeeper has all the way been longing to marry Figaro since Figaro once promised to marry her if he should default on a loan she had made to him, and she intends to enforce that promise. This idea is proposed by Dr. Bartolo who is seeking revenge against Figaro for thwarting his plans to marry Rosina himself ten years ago. Cherubino, a young beau in the residence of the Count, flirts with all the women he meets, describing his emerging infatuation with them all day long; Basilio, the slimy music teacher, gossips anywhere and anytime; besides, there are also a muddle-headed judge, a drunken gardener, and of course the Countess Rosina who is always alone at night. All kinds of roles appear one after another, and the match between the noble and the mass begins. At last, the lower class who is cleverer and braver triumph and manage to embarrass the Count in the presence of all.
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