2007/2008 Season Opera

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart :LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

OPERA HOUSE

Il Conte Almaviva	:	Detlef Roth
La Contessa	:	Maija Kovalevska
Figaro	:	Lorenzo Regazzo
Susanna	:	Nakamura Eri
Cherubino	:	Hayashi Michiko
Marcellina	:	Moriyama Kyoko
Bartolo	:	Sato Yasuhiro
Basilio	:	Mochizuki Tetsuya
Don Curzio	:	Kamoshita Minoru
Antonio	:	Shimura Fumihiko
Barbarina	:	Kunimitsu Tomoko
Chorus	:	New National Theatre Chorus
Orchestra	:	Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

October 2007	18	20	23	27
	Thu	Sat	Tue	Sat
2:00		X		X
6:30	X		X

Doors will open 45 minutes before the opening of the performance.

	S	A	B	C	D	Z
Price(yen)	21,000	15,750	10,500	6,300	3,150	1,500

Mozart’s immortal comic opera, performed continuously in opera houses throughout the world. The staging by Andreas Homoki imagines the opera in the unsettled society of France on the eve of the Revolution, and with simple sets and precise tempo skillfully delineates the relationships among the principal characters. The 2003 debut of this production won universal acclaim from the press. The entire opera is replete with the finest music, from the delightful overture and the arias “Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro” (Grant, love, some comfort) and “Non piú andrai” (No more gallivanting), to the brilliant ensembles that adorn the finales of the second and fourth acts.

A former barber and now a servant of Count Almaviva, Figaro is going to marry Susanna, a servant of the Countess. Although the Count has already given up the right of the first night (the lord’s right to share the first marriage night with his servant’s bride in place of the servant), the Count, who fancies Susanna, intends to reclaim the right. The Countess laments that her husband’s love for her is cooling. Therefore, the Countess, Figaro and Susanna all conspire to outwit the Count. They use Susanna’s clothes to disguise Cherubino, a page at puberty, as a woman and try to lure out the Count…