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Figaro Gets a Divorce
''Figaro Gets a Divorce'' is an opera by the Russian-British composer Elena Langer to a libretto by David Pountney. It is scheduled to premiere on 21 February 2016 at the Welsh National Opera at Cardiff.〔
==Background==
''Figaro Gets a Divorce'' is conceived as a sequel〔("Figaro Gets a Divorce" ), Welsh National Opera website, accessed 19 March 2015.〕 to Mozart's 1786 opera ''Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)'' based on the 1778 play ''La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro'',〔Rosenthal and Warrack (1979), p. 356〕 by Pierre Beaumarchais. This had been created by Beaumarchais as a sequel to his play ''Le Barbier de Séville''. The latter was also set as the opera ''The Barber of Seville'' by Rossini in 1816 (itself preceded by other versions, including a 1782 setting by Giovanni Paisiello). Pountney, who in his capacity as Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the Welsh National Opera commissioned the composition, was inspired in his libretto by two different theatrical follow-ups to these two plays, Beaumarchais's own ''La Mère coupable (The Guilty Mother)'', and Ödön von Horváth's 1936 play, ''Figaro läßt sich scheiden (Figaro Gets a Divorce).''〔(WNO Briefing Note – "Figaro Gets a Divorce" ), Wales in London website, accessed 19 March 2015〕 Both of these plays have previous operatic settings, the former by Darius Milhaud (1966), Inger Wikström (''Den brottsliga modern'', 2006), and Thierry Pécou (2010), the latter by Giselher Klebe (1963). The opera takes the characters into the period of the French Revolution.
The opera will be staged in Cardiff in sequence with the Rossini and Mozart operas, using the same sets and many of the same singers. The set designs will be by Ralph Koltai and Pountney himself will direct all three operas.〔
Langer has said that in the new opera, the character of Cherubino (a sex-obsessed young teenager in the Mozart opera) has become 'sleazier'; the role (which is travesti in Mozart) is to be sung by a counter-tenor.〔Keith Clarke, ("Welsh National Opera launches 70th anniversary season including'' Sweeney Todd''" ) in ''Classical Music'' website, 6 October 2014, accessed 19 March 2015.〕 Pountney has said It has been a great inspiration to imagine the future lives of these great characters of operatic and theatrical literature, to see how they might be tested by events and, in many cases, emerge as stronger and more admirable people. Of course all three operas should stand on their own, but the audience that is able to experience all three will, I hope, enjoy a truly rewarding operatic journey.〔
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