Overview

A count has designs on his personal valet's fiancée and is determined to stop their wedding taking place. Meanwhile, the countess tries to regain her husband's love by any means necessary. Mozart's great comic opera is a tale of intrigue, misunderstanding and forgiveness. Christian Gerhaher plays the clever Figaro and Simon Keenlyside his aristocratic master in this revival of David McVicar's much-loved production at the Royal Opera House.

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Cast

Simon Keenlyside

Il Conte di Almaviva

Maurizio Muraro

Bartolo

Jean-Paul Fouchécourt

Basilio

John Eliot Gardiner

Self - Conductor