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The New Aquarian Opera Company brings our first Grand Opera to the Barn Theatre, Oxted, since the relaunch in 2019, with a fully staged production of Mozart's, The Marriage of Figaro. This will be sung in English with an extraordinarily funny translation by Amanda Holden (not the BGT one!) and we have an amazing cast of soloists. This will be a fully staged, four act production, with a six piece Chamber Ensemble led by our Musical Director Guy Middlemiss.

The saga started in 1786 Vienna, when Mozart took a great risk by composing an opera from Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto based on Beaumarchais’ incendiary, banned play about servants outwitting their masters. Never before had an opera been continually 'sung-through' with recitative replacing the spoken word to move the story along and it literally changed the world of music forever. The Marriage of Figaro is a sublime operatic masterpiece of comedy, lust, deception and love that remains one of the world’s most favourites over 200 years later.

Figaro loves Susanna, the Countess still loves the Count, Cherubino loves all the ladies and as for the Count, love is not the word for how he feels about Susanna! 

The story all takes place on Figaro and Susanna’s wedding day; with the machinations of the Count trying to get his wicked way, colliding with the convoluted plans and agendas of the Countess and the rest of the household. Mozart's music elevates every moment, and the flaws of humanity give way to the beauty of love and compassion with a triumphal ending that is truly joyous.