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METROPOLITAN OPERA BROADCAST OF FEBRUARY 12, 2005, 1:30 P.M. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK THE 2004-05 METROPOLITAN OPERA BROADCAST SEASON IS MADE POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS GRANTS FROM THE ANNENBERG [...]

Riccardo Muti. Few names can conjure such expectations of unforgettable opera. After Muti's highly-politicized departure from La Scala, a series of Figaros at Vienna's Staatsoper was hastily arranged, replacing music [...]

Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro has been called one of the great achievements of Western civilization, an assessment reflective of the work's profound treatise on the very nature of humanity, [...]

Le Festival d'Aix-en-Provenee, France's first and foremost opera festival, has had a checkered history. Founded in 1948, it rapidly gained a reputation as one of the most attractive venues in [...]

Florentine Opera completed its season with a production of Le Nozze di Figaro (seen April 28) that had the potential for excellence. But the enterprise, though well sung by a [...]

On March 23, Berkeley Opera launched a brief run of Le Nozze di Figaro, derived from The Flexible Figaro, an unpublished English-language performing edition by Sherwood Dudley, with translations by [...]

Welsh National Opera's new Le Nozze di Figaro was sung in Italian (Feb. 10), offering the agreeable possibility of engaging Italian singers in major roles. Outstanding among these was the [...]

'Figaro qua, Figaro la.' The lines, of course, are from Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, but 'Figaro here, Figaro there' perfectly sums up the ubiquity of Mozart's Le Nozze di [...]