Comedia per musica in four acts
Text: Lorenzo da Ponte by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Musical direction: Ivor Bolton
Stage direction: Barrie Kosky

It was supposed to be the best day for Susanna and Figaro: Their wedding day. But Count Almaviva is stalking the bride. Don Basilio pesters Susanna with his intercession for the Count, Marcellina wants to sue for the old marriage contract with Figaro and Doctor Bartolo supports her, also out of old anger against Figaro. And then there is the page Cherubino, who is in love with all the women and whom all the women want to have around, preferably disguised as a girl ... Only with the combined forces of Figaro's imagination, Susanna's cleverness and the support of the betrayed countess can this "great day" be brought to a happy end.