COC’s The Marriage of Figaro makes for one bloody Valentine
The Marriage of Figaro
Claus Guth’s production, first presented in Salzburg in 2006, lends Cherubino a supreme symbolism, his twin being a feather-sprinkling, mischief-making cherub less interested in class warfare than the mechanisms of desire. Thus does the production turn expectations upside down in ways that illuminate Lorenzo Da Ponte’s already-clever libretto.
It is fascinating, to be sure, but the busy nature of the staging sometimes diffuses the power of Mozart’s evocative score, the most glaring example coming at the end of Act II, when text-based animation and swooning human counterparts prove more distracting than illuminating, more silly than salacious.
Bintner’s compulsively watchable Almaviva is presented as less a buffoonish bully than an overwhelmed man-child. The Canadian bass-baritone combines his immense physicality and oak-toned voice to paint a portrait of a young nobleman negotiating his roles both in and out of society.
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