Sarah Gilford performs the role of Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Klagenfurt Stadttheater
An overreaching nobleman and his peasant cunning servant, a steadfast countess and her clever maid, in between a pubescent youth and more or less skillful schemers: the panopticon of characters in Le nozze di Figaro primarily shows an image of society from the 18th century - and yet capable to recognize each viewer in at least one of the figures drawn with an accurate knowledge of human nature ...
The comedy is very simple and complicated - just like in "real life": Count Almaviva loves Susanna, Countess Rosina Almaviva's maid, who still loves the Count and can no longer bear his affairs. But Susanna loves the count's valet Figaro, who in turn is loved by the older Marcellina. When Susanna and Figaro want to get married, there are all sorts of cabals against the marriage, and every intrigue is parried with another. When Mozart brought the notorious piece by Beaumarchais to the stage of the Vienna Court Theater as an opera, critics loyal to the emperor conjured up a scandal: How could Joseph II give his approval for the performance? But the librettist Da Ponte succeeded in consistently emphasising the allusions to a corrupt and infantile nobility from the original.
The production is directed by KS Brigitte Fassbaender, under the musical direction of Nicholas Milton with rising soprano Sarah Gilford as Susanna.
Performance Dates
4, 6, 9, 12, 19, 20, 24, 27 November 2021
5*, 15, 30 December 2021
4 January 2022
All performance commences at 7.30 pm
*Matinee show starts at 3.00 pm