Perhaps no opera is as closely and affectionately associated with a single house as Le nozze di Figaro is with Glyndebourne. Effortlessly witty yet shot through with pain and sadness, this deeply ambivalent life in the day of masters and servants as they scheme and outwit one another, was Glyndebourne’s opening production in 1934.

Michael Grandage’s staging is the seventh, set in a louche Sixties ambience. Marshalled by the ‘ideal pacing’ of Robin Ticciati, a youthful cast of principals has ‘no weak link’ and ‘looks gorgeous’ (The Sunday Times) in a production that continues Glyndebourne’s rewarding history of engagement with Mozart’s and da Ponte’s ‘day of madness’.

Cast:
- Countess Almaviva: Sally Matthews
- Figaro: Vito Priante
- Count Almaviva: Audun Iversen
- Susanna: Lydia Teuscher
- Cherubino: Isabel Leonard
- Bartolo: Andrew Shore
- Marcellina: Ann Murray
- Don Basilio: Alan Oke
- Antonio: Nicholas Folwell
- Don Curzio: Colin Judson
- Barbarina: Sarah Shafer
- First Bridesmaid: Ellie Laugharne
- Second Bridesmaid: Katie Bray

Director: Michael Grandage

Recorded live at Glyndebourne Festival, June 2012.

"... this is a Figaro of rare grace, naturalness and charm... Sally Matthews sings the Countess’s arias with perfect poise, while Lydia Teuscher makes a delightfully practical Susanna...The rest of the cast is terrific, and the whole thing moves like lightning. Pure joy." - The Daily Telegraph

Running time: 180 minutes
Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/JP/KR
Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS