Three hours of sexual chaos set to music so perfect you'll forget to breathe.
The Salzburg Festival presents one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's masterpieces: the opera Le Nozze di Figaro, in a new production staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf and conducted by Dan Ettinger. Set-List: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492.
Direction
Bechtolf's staging makes three hours feel like ninety minutes.
Acting
Pisaroni's Count: pathetic, dangerous, weirdly hot.
Score
Ettinger's tempi let the comedy breathe without killing momentum.
Director
Sven-Eric Bechtolf
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Salzburg Festival was founded in 1920 specifically to celebrate Mozart in his hometown, making this essentially his annual birthday party with the world's best musicians.
Beaumarchais's original play was banned in Vienna; Mozart and Da Ponte got away with it by making the aristocracy ridiculous rather than villainous—notice how the Count never actually succeeds.
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