Laurie Feldman stages Pelly’s production concept. (Lindsay Kate Brown is Marcellina in the final two performances.) James Creswell, Thomas Cilluffo, Cheyanne Coss, Alaysha Fox and Ruby Dibble round out the cast. Patrick Carfizzi, Susanne Mentzer and Brenton Ryan are, respsectively, the meddlesome Don Bartolo, Marcellina and Don Basilio. Samuel Dale Johnson and Vanessa Vasquez are the Count and Countess Almaviva.

Nicholas Brownlee and Ying Fang are the servant Figaro and his fiancé Susanna. Over the past 15 years, I have reviewed seven performances of Pelly’s imaginative productions in Paris, San Francisco and, especially in Santa Fe. The Marriage of Figaro – Le Nozze di Figar o (Mozart), Santa Fe Opera, July 10, 14, 23, August 3, 10, 14, 18, 21, 24 and 27, 2021.Īfter a canceled 2020 season, live opera performances return to Santa Fe Opera with French director Laurent Pelly’s new to Santa Fe production of Mozart’s masterpiece “Le Nozze di Figaro”. The following is a list of opera productions in Santa Fe and San Francisco in the months of July and August, 2021 that I am scheduled to attend and review: Live opera performances in many venues are resuming, including at the Santa Fe and San Francisco Operas, notably with many accommodations designed to protect the health of artists and audiences. Although I was scheduled to review subsequent operatic performances in Chicago, San Francisco, the Glimmerglass Festival, Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston, every one of these performances was canceled as opera companies responded to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic. Note from William: My most recent review of an operatic performance was that of the Sarasota Opera’s production of Catalani’s “La Wally” on March 7, 2020.

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