What starts as a seemingly simple desire — Susanna and Figaro want to get married— quickly degenerates into a comedy of intrigue. This opera is the first of three collaborations between composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte.
The ideas of the Enlightenment are omnipresent in this work. These are characters who want to build the world anew. And to do that the old must be deconstructed. First the castle is flattened and neatly laid out on the floor, then the architectural drawings that preceded the castle are washed away, and finally the floor itself is lifted to uncover the garden, nature as its most comfortable.
musical direction Marie Jacquot / direction Tom Goossens / dramaturgy Lalina Goddard, Tom Swaak / scenography Sammy Van den Heuvel / costume design Dotje Demuynck / light design Luc Schaltin