Nozze di Figaro 1999Scottish Opera
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This was the only revival of David Leveaux’s 1995 production, a modern treatment, though not aggressively so. Some useful changes were introduced by new director Aidan Lang. Raymond Leppard returned from America to conduct the company after a gap of several years, and the cast contained a number of strikingly successful newcomers. Paul Whelan moved across from Figaro to the Count, with great success, his height being more obviously aristocratic. He was replaced by a startlingly good new Figaro in Christopher Purves, as a bull-headed and distinctly dangerous servant. Rebecca Caine was a mercurial Susanna, and Alice Coote made a debut with the main company as one of the best Cherubinos, several years after she first made her mark on tour in the Opera-go-Round staging of Maria Stuarda (and she wasn’t playing either queen!). Graham Stone was an unusually youthful Bartolo and Felicity Hammond made an immediate impression as Barbarina.
Performance Cast
- Figaro the Count's valet
- Susanna the Countess's maid
- Bartolo a doctor, the Countess's former guardian
- Marcellina Bartolo's housekeeper
- Cherubino the Count's page
- Count Almaviva a Spanish grandee
- Don Basilio a priest and music master
- Countess Almaviva
- Antonio a gardener, Susanna's uncle
- Don Curzio a lawyer
- Barbarina daugher of Antonio
- First Peasant Girl
- Second Peasant Girl
Production Cast
- Conductor
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Raymond Leppard (Dec 10, 14, 21, 23)
Derek Clark (Dec 16, 18)
- Director
- Designer - Sets
- Designer - Costumes
- Lighting
- Associate Director
- Chorus
- Orchestra
- Translator