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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

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    Featured programme ND+
    1. premiere
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    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Sunday 11. 6.
    19:00

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    2. premiere
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    English surtitles

    Saturday 17. 6.
    19:00

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    Featured programme ND+
    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Tuesday 27. 6.
    19:00

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    Premiere production
    English surtitles
    August 2023

    Thursday 31. 8.
    19:00

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    Premiere production
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    September 2023

    Sunday 3. 9.
    19:00

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    Premiere production
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    Tuesday 5. 9.
    19:00

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    Premiere production
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    Thursday 14. 9.
    19:00

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    Premiere production
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    October 2023

    Friday 6. 10.
    19:00

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    Premiere production
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    Sunday 15. 10.
    19:00

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    Premiere production
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    Sunday 29. 10.
    17:00

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    Premiere production
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    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

    Just how much can happen on a wedding day? Mozart’s opera buffa Le nozze di Figaro is returning to the Estates Theatre in Barbora Horáková Joly’s unorthodox adaptation.

    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

    Cupid’s arrows fly around as they please, binding the seemingly incompatible and dividing the seemingly inseparable. Mozart’s philandering Count Almaviva, his neglected wife Rosina, the Countess’s pretty maid Susanna and the crafty, albeit occasionally naïve, valet Figaro know all too well … The new National Theatre production of Le nozze di Figaro has been created by two distinguished female artists: the English conductor Julia Jones and the Czech stage director Barbora Horáková Joly

    What pitfalls and intrigues must the protagonists overcome within a single day – the wedding day of Susanna and Figaro? From the very first tones of the famous Overture to the moment of the Count being given a lecture in marital fidelity, the opera tells a story in which women are depicted as wiser, smarter and more civilised than men. 

    The celebrated composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was fond of Prague and its Nostitz (today Estates) Theatre. He paid five visits to the city. During the first of them, less than a year before hosting the world premiere of his opera Don Giovanni in 1787, the Nostitz Theatre gave a performance of Le nozze di Figaro, with Mozart himself conducting. Mozart composed the opera to a libretto written by the Italian poet Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on the French playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s comedy La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro, whose denunciation of aristocratic privilege and social inequality many have  characterised as foreshadowing the French Revolution. 

    Suitable for spectators of ages 12 and up. 

    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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