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The Marriage of Figaro
by Mozart
Opera North
Leeds Grand Theatre, 8 October 1987
An opera in four acts.
There will be one interval after Act II
Text by Lorenzo da Ponta, after the play The Mad March Day or the Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais
English translation by Edward J Dent
First performance: Vienna Burgtheater, 1 May 1786
First performance by Opera North: Barnsley Civic Hall, 22 May 1979
See also programme notes:
- Résumé
- Synopsis
- Beaumarchais's notes on his characters
- Figaro's Marriage, essay on the opera
- Figaro's Act V speech
- Beaumarchais's own summary and explanation of his career
- Contemporary accounts of Beaumarchais
- from the memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte
- Mozart on marriage
| Figaro, servant to Count Almaviva | Anthony Michaels-Moore | |
| Susanna, maid to Countess Almaviva | Judith Howarth | |
| Doctor Bartolo | Clive Bayley | |
| Marcellina, his housekeeper | Pauline Thulborn | |
| Cherubino, a page | Linda Kitchen | |
| Count Almaviva | Peter Savidge | (April) |
| Geoffrey Dolton | (May/June) | |
| Don Basilio, a music master | Mark Curtis | |
| Countess Almaviva | Ida-Maria Turri | |
| Antonio, a gardener, uncle to Susanna | Bruce Budd | |
| Don Curzio, a lawyer | Brian Cookson | |
| Barbarina, daughter of Antonio | Lyndall Trotman | |
| Bridesmaids | Marilyn Craig-Smith | |
| Conductor | Elgar Howarth | (excluding 22 April) |
| David Lloyd-Jones | (22 April) | |
| Producer | Peter Gill | |
| Production restaged by | David Gann | |
| Designer | Alison Chitty | |
| Lighting Designer | Robert Bryan | |
| Chief Repetiteur and harpsichord continuo | John Querns | |
| Staff Producer | Caroline Gawn | |
| Stage Manager | Michele Eastwood | |
| Production Manager | Edward de Pledge |