The Marriage of Figaro – review

Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDC Jackson's comic drama of sexual and financial shenanigans among Edinburgh's banking elite relies heavily on its two sources: Beaumarchais's 1784 comedy The Marriage of Figaro (with scenes of aristocratic double-dealing "so closely linked and so superbly integrated that they move like the surge of a sunlit sea", as Robert Niklaus says of Beaumarchais's earlier hit, The Barber of Seville), and its Mozart-Da Ponte opera version, shimmering with ravishing songs of lust, lo...

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