This revival of David McVicar’s wonderful 2006 production sees an uneven cast and John Eliot Gardiner’s conducting sometimes too overbearing A good performance of Le Nozze di Figaro always has more ...

John Eliot Gardiner leasd a brilliant cast in Mozart's beloved opera, Le Nozze Di Figaro. Recorded live in 1993, Bryn Terfel deftly tackles the roll of Figaro.

David McVicar’s direction of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ is with us again. The operatic version of Beaumarchais’s comic drama, it stands up well to such revival (this is the fourth), given its ...

The most striking aspect of David McVicar’s production of Le nozze di Figaro, staged in 2006 to commemorate the 250 th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, is not its updating of the setting from the 1780s ...

The ensemble needs to be as near perfect as it can be. Here the Almavivas were outshone by their servants – seriously so in the charisma bypass of Christopher Maltman’s Count. Character might have ...