Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in Regents Park

We are delighted to welcome Opera Brava to the green spaces of The Regent's `Park for the first time. Please note this production will take place on Nannies' Lawn which can be found on the Inner Circle in Queen Mary's Gardens between Regent's Café and The Open Air Theatre.

With a professional cast of top-class performers, lavish costumes and period sets, the production promises first-rate quality in the green heart of London at very reasonable prices.

Mozart's Marriage of Figaro has all the ingredients of a classic piece of 18th century literature -- passion, lust, betrayal, deception and ultimate forgiveness.

International baritone Hakan Vramsmo plays Count Almaviva, the over amorous villain of the piece who's determined to upset the marriage plans of his two servants Figaro and Susanna with his "droit de seigneur" designs on the young girl.

Figaro Ian Beadle, for his part, is desired by Marcellina (played by International mezzo soprano Louise Crane), to whom he owes a substantial debt. Marcellina plots to force Figaro to marry her as a forfeit for non-payment.

Her plan looks as if it will succeed until it is revealed, incredibly, that Figaro is in fact Marcellina's long-lost son!

Meanwhile, Susanna (soprano Stephanie Bodsworth) hatches a counter-plot with the Count's wife (soprano Amanda Buckland), herself coveted by the amorous page-boy Cherubino(Melanie Lodge), to foil the Count's plans to seduce Susanna and expose his adulterous intentions.

Susanna agrees to a night-time rendezvous with the Count but it will in fact be the Countess who is to meet and confront her husband.

Disaster almost ensues when Figaro stumbles upon what he believes to be Susanna and the Count locked in an embrace and is beside himself with rage. However he learns the truth just in time and the humbled, humiliated Count is forced to beg his wife for forgiveness.

Under the direction of Bronek Pomorski and with Robert Bottriell as musical director, opera fans -- and newcomers to the classical entertainment -- are in for a real treat with this traditional production.

Completing the cast are International tenor Martin Rendle as Basilio and Curzio, and Geoffrey Moses Covent Garden soloist(bass) as Bartolo and Antonio.

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If you like this event you may also like Verdi's La Traviata on Wednesday, 26 June 2019 on Nannies Lawn (one performance only).