Fri. Jan. 16 - 9pm on WKAR-HD 23.1 | The Season 9 premiere features "Le NozzediFigaro," Mozart's 1786 comic masterpiece, which brings to life the upstairs-downstairs romantic complexities at an 18th-century manor house.
The staging of the opera, in which the romantic bonds of two couples are tested over the course of one eventful day, is set in a stately manor in 1930s Seville. IldarAbdrazakov, star of Prince Igor (also seen on Great Performances at the Met) and an acclaimed Figaro at the Met in the past, sings the title role.
The cast also includes Marlis Petersen as Figaro’s quick-witted bride-to-be, Susanna; Peter Mattei in one of his most acclaimed roles as Count Almaviva; Amanda Majeski in her Met debut as Almaviva’s wife, the long-suffering Countess; and Isabel Leonard as the boisterous page Cherubino.
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