Against the Grain Theatre’s Figaro’s Wedding marries a Mozart classic with modern sensibilities

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Against the Grain Theatre’s Figaro’s Wedding marries a Mozart classic with modern sensibilities GlobeArts

Like a well-loved dose of nostalgia, Figaro’s Wedding is back on the season lineup as Against the Grain Theatre marks its 10th season.Imagine the perfect opera for an audience in 2019: It’s in English, populated by characters we understand and recognize, and balances stunning moments of singing with merciful comedy.

is about class and status, the 18th-century power dynamics laying out some high stakes for its main characters that are hard to replicate today. Figaro and Susanna are live-in servants to the Count, and Susanna is rightly scared of the very real possibility that the Count will rape her on her wedding night, as is his right according to the. This is no silly story of a crazy boss – Figaro and Susanna live in a world where saying no to the Count can literally cost them their lives.

 

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