The Marriage of Figaro – review

Coliseum, LondonEnglish National Opera's new production of The Marriage of Figaro is directed by Fiona Shaw. Her previous work for the company – Vaughan Williams's Riders to the Sea, Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers – was widely admired for giving credence to unexplored areas of the repertory. Mozart's great comedy brings her, however, into the operatic mainstream for the first time, and the results are altogether less secure.Feeling a necessity to mediate between the 18th century...

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