Opera North

It's Figaro's wedding day, and, to add to the usual worries, Figaro learns that his master, the Count, is out to bed his bride-to-be Susanna. The Countess is heartbroken by her husband's faithlessness - but she is the object of the adolescent desires of the page, Cherubino. And Figaro is in trouble with the housekeeper, Marcellina, who has lent him money on the promise that, if he can't repay her, he'll have to marry her...

The Marriage of Figaro is aptly subtitled 'The Follies of a Day'. Mozart's music bubbles along with comedic high spirits, but it plumbs the depths of emotion, too, expressing the joy and pain of love and the agony and ecstasy of desire, until all is resolved in a spirit of forgiveness.

Sung in English. Performance lasts approximately 3 hours.