Metropolitan Opera: 'Le Nozze di Figaro'

By Scott Clemens

Published April 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT

Michael Sumuel as Figaro and Olga Kulchynska as Susanna in Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro." (Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera)

On Saturday at 1 p.m., hear the Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "Le Nozze di Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with Rossini's "Le Nozze di Figaro" (The Marriage of Figaro).

Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bass-baritone Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro opposite soprano Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins performs as the philandering Count, soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce in the role of the adolescent page Cherubino.

From the Met: "A profoundly humane comedy, 'Le Nozze di Figaro' is a remarkable marriage of Mozart’s music at the height of his genius and one of the best librettos ever set.

"In adapting a play that caused a scandal with its revolutionary take on 18th-century society, librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte focused less on the original topical references and more on the timeless issues embedded in the frothy drawing-room comedy."

Read the synopsis from the Metropolitan Opera or click below to watch a clip from the Opera's dress rehearsal in March of 2025.