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Opera

Le nozze di Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Premiere performances: 9 and 11 June 2023 at the Estates Theatre

The Estates Theatre
Premiere production
English surtitles

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    June 2023

    Friday 9. 6.
    19:00

    Last 1 ticket left

    Featured programme ND+
    1. premiere
    Premiere
    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Sunday 11. 6.
    19:00

    Last 12 tickets left

    2. premiere
    Premiere
    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Saturday 17. 6.
    19:00

    Tickets available

    Featured programme ND+
    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Tuesday 27. 6.
    19:00

    Tickets available

    Premiere production
    English surtitles
    August 2023

    Thursday 31. 8.
    19:00

    Tickets available

    Premiere production
    English surtitles
    September 2023

    Sunday 3. 9.
    19:00

    Tickets available

    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Tuesday 5. 9.
    19:00

    Tickets available

    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Thursday 14. 9.
    19:00

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    Premiere production
    English surtitles
    October 2023

    Friday 6. 10.
    19:00

    Tickets available

    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Sunday 15. 10.
    19:00

    Tickets available

    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Sunday 29. 10.
    17:00

    Tickets available

    Premiere production
    English surtitles
    November 2023

    Friday 10. 11.
    19:00

    Tickets available

    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Basic information

    Venue

    The Estates Theatre

    Language

    In Italian, surtitles in Czech, English

    Premiere

    June 9, 2023

    Cast

    • 2022-2023
    • 2023-2024

    Creatives

    Sets, videoart
    Falko Herold
    Lighting design
    Ivo Dankovič
    Choreography
    Jan Adam
    Chorus master
    Lukáš Kozubík
    Dramaturgy
    Ondřej Hučín

    About

    National Theatre Chorus
    National Theatre Orchestra

    One of the most popular operas worldwide, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) has been a staple of the Mozart repertoire at the Estates Theatre. Our unique venue is fatefully bound to the musical genius owing not only to Don Giovanni, which had its world premiere there in 1787. Less than a year previously, just a few months after its first performance in Vienna, the Estates Theatre staged Le nozze di Figaro, which was rapturously received by Prague music lovers. W. A. Mozart and his librettist, the Italian poet Lorenzo da Ponte, based the opera on the French dramatist Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro, a scandalous play whose scathing denouncement of social inequality was deemed by many, including Charles Danton and Napoleon Bonaparte, to have foreshadowed the French Revolution. We still do not know whether all people really are equal before God, but at least since Mozart conceived his comic opera we have known that no one is discriminated against by Cupid. His arrows fly wherever they feel like, connect that which is seemingly incompatible and separate that which is seemingly inseparable. Mozart’s rakish Count Almaviva, his neglected wife, her pretty maid Suzanne and the astute, though naïve, valet Figaro certainly know …

    Our new adaptation of Le nozze di Figaro will be staged by the Czech director Barbora Horáková Joly, who has recently created for the National Theatre a production of Rigoletto and the double bill Die sieben Totsünden / Erwartung. The music will prepare the renowned British conductor Julia Jones.

    Suitable for audience from 12 years.

    The new Le nozze di Figaro will be a co-production with the Nationaltheater Mannheim.

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    Practical information

    Where to buy tickets

    The National Theatre sells tickets up to 6 months in advance. On 1 June at 9am we started selling tickets for performances of Drama, Ballet, Opera and Laterna magika until the end of November 2023.


    When purchasing online, you can get an e-ticket. You can pick up printed tickets in person at the box offices of the National Theatre.

    What to wear?

    By their appearance, attire and behaviour, the audience is obliged to adhere to the accustomed practice expected from them when attending a theatre performance.

    Parking at the Estates Theatre

    Unfortunately, there is no parking near The Estates Theater. You can use the guarded parking lot in the Kotva shopping center (Revoluční 1/655, Prague 1) and Paladium (Na Poříčí 1079 / 3a, Prague 1).

    Buffets at the Estates Theater

    No waiting. For your benefit, please pre-order your food and beverages at the bar to minimize waiting in the queue!

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