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A dazzling new Figaro at the Lyric Opera
The Lyric Opera’s 2015-16 season opened on Saturday night with a dazzling new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, complete with wading pool. From one of the evening’s first gestures – Amanda Majeski, stately as the Countess, pulling the curtain down instead of letting it rise – one knew that this production would play up the opera’s mischievousness no less than its spectacle. What is perhaps even more remarkable is the way the Hungarian conductor Henrik Nánási, general music director of the Komische Oper in Berlin and new to these shores, finds so much room to breathe within the most frenetic of arias (such as Bartolo’s in the first act).
The remarkable quartet of singers playing the two lead couples – Figaro and Susanna, the Count and Countess – had some early nerves that needed shaking out. But once they got going, their personalities beamed out to the audience like a spotlight: Adam Plachetka’s rambunctious puppy Figaro matched against Luca Pisaroni’s cartoon villain Count, while Christiane Karg’s megawatt Susanna pranced around Majeski’s composure.
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