It isn't the spiffy red and yellow Italian sports car (an Alfa Romeo, maybe) that arrives during the effervescent overture to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (1786), carrying the Count and Countess Almaviva (bass-baritone Adam Plachetka and soprano Nicole Heaston) to their Moorish villa, that perks up this incandescent opera,...
It isn't the spiffy red and yellow Italian sports car that arrives during the effervescent overture to Mozart's, carrying the Count and Countess Almaviva to their Moorish villa, that perks up this incandescent opera, it's the arrival of randy pageboy Cherubino .
Snouffer's a scene stealer of the highest order, and it takes quite a lot to make an impression with so many other scene stealers in sight in this picturesque co-production from Houston Grand Opera and Glyndebourne Festival. You might remember this Michael Grandage-directed production from the 2015-16 season.
There's no opera without a Figaro, and HGO has a picture-perfect one in Argentinian bass Nahuel Di Pierro. He's internationally renowned for his Mozart and Baroque music interpretations, and Houston is fortunate to hear him in all his glory. His voice is rich and dark, expressive and supple, as is his acting. Di Pierro's Figaro is one crafty valet, scheming to thwart Almaviva's designs on fianceé Susanna .
If you like your Count Almaviva more “buffa” than slick and oily, then bass-baritone Adam Plachetka's interpretation will be your cup of tea. Usually the soigné Count is depicted as elegant and suave, quite the lady's man. Here, he's blustery, definitely out of his depths, and ready to be punched down a peg. He doesn't have far to fall. This is, I suspect, director Grandage's concept of noblesse oblige, for the Count's dressed in garish paisleys and ruby velour.
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