The Marriage of Figaro♪, W. A. Mozart, the 1.
from Wednesday 29 May to Sunday 2 June 2024,
4 nights
Arrangement 1
Arrangement 1
Andrea Chénier, U. Giordano, the 30.
Antonio Pappano - David McVicar
Sondra Radvanovsky, Katia Ledoux,
Jonas Kaufmann♪, Alexander Kravets,
Carlos Álvarez♪
Jonas Kaufmann
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann was born on July 10, 1969 in Munich. He learned to play the piano at the age of 8, encouraged by his father and grandfather who passed on to him their passion for classical music, Wagner and singing. Jonas Kaufmann also frequently attended the Munich Opera from an early age and joined his school choir. He then embarked on studies of mathematics, which he abandoned to join, in 1989, the Academy of Music and Theater in Munich. Jonas Kaufmann gets his first important role at the Regensburg Opera where he is Caramello in A Night in Venice by Johann Strauss. Jonas Kaufmann then met Helmut Deutsch who guided him in his vocal development and still accompanies him today on the piano in his recitals. It was during the 2000s that his international career took off with his appearances in particular at the Chicago Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the La Monnaie Theater, Covent Garden, the Zurich Opera, the Staatsoper in Vienna, Munich, La Scala, New York Metropolitan Opera and the Bayreuth Festival. Comfortable in all repertoires, he then became one of the most popular tenors on the international scene.
Carlos Álvarez
Carlos Álvarez, born in 1966 in Malaga, is a Spanish baritone who has had an important international career in opera since the early 1990s. Since then Carlos Álvarez has appeared in leading roles on the stages of the major houses of opera houses such as La Scala, the Royal Opera House, the Opéra Bastille, the Liceu ...
Royal Opera House
The Marriage of Figaro
W. A. Mozart
W. A. Mozart
“Le nozze di figaro” marked the beginning of the happy and fruitful collaboration between W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, which was to bring both success and artistic satisfaction. Although Da Ponte, as a precautionary measure and in view of the sharp censorship, dispensed with the biting sarcasm of Beaumarchais’ original, which served as the model for the new opera buffa, there was still enough fuel in it to deal with a major theme of the time: The examination of the complex relationships between the social classes, or rather the discrimination of the lower classes by the upper ones.
While Count Almaviva embodies a reactionary representative of the nobility, the shrewd Figaro is presented as a representative of the rising third class. Two forces face each other here, each claiming power in pre-revolutionary Europe. Mozart found in this passionate and ironic piece so much of the shame and disappointments he had experienced during his artistic life that he let all his bitter experiences and mental anguish flow into the composition.
Despite the explosive theme, the premiere performance in Vienna in 1786 under the reign of Emperor Joseph II was a great success. Today "Le nozze di figaro" is one of the most popular and most performed operas worldwide.
While Count Almaviva embodies a reactionary representative of the nobility, the shrewd Figaro is presented as a representative of the rising third class. Two forces face each other here, each claiming power in pre-revolutionary Europe. Mozart found in this passionate and ironic piece so much of the shame and disappointments he had experienced during his artistic life that he let all his bitter experiences and mental anguish flow into the composition.
Despite the explosive theme, the premiere performance in Vienna in 1786 under the reign of Emperor Joseph II was a great success. Today "Le nozze di figaro" is one of the most popular and most performed operas worldwide.
Tabita Berglund - Bruno Ravella
Samantha Clarke, Claire Lees, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Rafael Fingerlos, David Ireland
Garsington Opera
Hotel informations for London & Garsington 1
Hartwell House & One Aldwych *****
The Hartwell House & Spa *****, located in the Vale of Aylesbury and just forty miles north west of London, is one of Buckinghamshire’s most celebrated country houses. Built in the early seventeenth century for the Hampden family, the house has both Jacobean and Georgian features with outstanding decorative plaster-work and panelling. Its fine elegant reception and dining rooms create the ambience of a great country house. The forty-six bedrooms, including those in the adjacent Hartwell Court, are individually furnished with fine prints, pictures and antiques.
You will reach the Garsington Opera in half-hour drive, we may organise for you the private transfers.
One Aldwych is an independently-owned, luxury London hotel with a difference - big enough to excite, yet small enough to care. This contemporary hotel offers everything needed for the ultimate stay in central London: creative cocktails in the seriously stylish Lobby Bar, inventive British dishes in Indigo restaurant, an 18-metre swimming pool and outstanding treatments at The Health Club, a magical afternoon tea inspired by Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and a private guest lounge, as well as beautiful bedrooms and suites.
Set in an enviable location, in the centre of London’s Covent Garden, One Aldwych is perfectly placed for the best restaurants, big-hit galleries, must-see museums and great shopping.
You will reach the Garsington Opera in half-hour drive, we may organise for you the private transfers.
One Aldwych is an independently-owned, luxury London hotel with a difference - big enough to excite, yet small enough to care. This contemporary hotel offers everything needed for the ultimate stay in central London: creative cocktails in the seriously stylish Lobby Bar, inventive British dishes in Indigo restaurant, an 18-metre swimming pool and outstanding treatments at The Health Club, a magical afternoon tea inspired by Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and a private guest lounge, as well as beautiful bedrooms and suites.
Set in an enviable location, in the centre of London’s Covent Garden, One Aldwych is perfectly placed for the best restaurants, big-hit galleries, must-see museums and great shopping.
All-inclusive price per person for London & Garsington 1
Single room/ night
Hartwell House & One Aldwych
from 3.990,- Euro
280-350,- Euro
The price includes
Overnights including breakfast, good opera tickets, scheduled flight, return taxi transfers, private transfer Garsington - London, festival transfers, picnic, travel cancellation expenses insurance.