Lyric Opera 2024-2025 Issue 4 - Figaro

19 | Lyric Opera of Chicago The Marriage of Figaro ( Le nozze di Figaro ) Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Opera buffa in four acts in Italian Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais’s play La folle journée, ou Le mariage de Figaro (1784) November 9, 13, 17m, 19, 21m, 24m, 27m, 30, 2024 CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE Figaro Peter Kellner + Susanna Ying Fang Dr. Bartolo Nicholas Newton Marcellina Sarah Mesko + Cherubino Kayleigh Decker •• Count Almaviva Gordon Bintner + Don Basilio Brenton Ryan Countess Almaviva Federica Lombardi + Antonio Matt Boehler Don Curzio Daniel Espinal • Barbarina Gemma Nha • Peasant Girls Emily Richter • + Lucy Baker • Conductor Erina Yashima + Director Barbara Gaines Set Designer James Noone Costume Designer Susan Mickey Lighting Designer Robert Wierzel Chorus Director Michael Black Choreographer Harrison McEldowney Wigmaster and John Metzner Makeup Designer Assistant Director Jordan Lee Braun Stage Manager Rachel A.Tobias Musical Preparation William C. Billingham Susan Miller Hult Noah Lindquist Blair Salter Stefano Sarzani Prompter Susan Miller Hult Fight Director Chuck Coyl Intimacy Director Sheryl Williams Projected English Titles Colin Ure First performed at Burgtheater,Vienna on May 1,1786. First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on November 8,1957. + Lyric debut • Current Member, The Patrick G.and Shirley W.Ryan Opera Center •• Alumna, The Patrick G.and Shirley W.Ryan Opera Center Actors Lillian Castillo Paulina Dudzik Edited for the New Mozart Edition by Ludwig Finscher and Ulrich Leisinger. Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company,Canadian and U.S.agent for Baerenreiter-Verlag, publisher and copyright owner.