Le Nozze di Figaro

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Librettist: Lorenzo da Ponte after Beaumarchais
Venue and Dates: The Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna as part of the Ravenna Festival.
5, 7, 9 July 2002
Conductor: Riccardo Muti
Director: Michael Heltau (Giorgio Strehler)
Sets: Diana Kienast
Design: Ezio Frigerio
Costume: Franca Squarciapino
Lighting: Vinicio Cheli
Choreography: Renato Zanella
Performers:

Il Conte di Almaviva: Simon Keenlyside
La Contessa di Almaviva: Melanie Diener
Cherubino: Angelika Kirchschlager
Figaro: Carlos Alvarez
Susanna: Tatiana Lisnic
Bartolo: Maurizio Muraro
Marcellina: Francesca Pedaci
Basilio: Michael Roider
Don Curzio: Peter Jelosits
Antonio: Matteo Peirone
Barbarina: Ileana Tonca
Choir, Orchestra and Ballet of the Vienna Staatsoper. Ernst Dunshirn (Choirmaster)

Notes: Revival of a 1996 production under Muti in La Scala, Milan.
Coproduction with the Vienna Festival and Vienna Staatsoper.
This production was also staged during the 2002 Wiener Festwochen.