Tristan Entwistle and Michaella Edelstein as Figaro and Cherubino.
Opera / Pocket opera version of “Le Nozze di Figaro” National Opera. At Wesley Uniting Church, May 8 only. Reviewed by
HELEN MUSA
IN a formula he’s invented all by himself, the artistic director of National Opera, Peter Coleman-Wright, has come up with a way of staging opera on a shoestring that he hopes can reinvigorate the art form for today’s audiences.
As he told the audience before the “Pocket Opera” performance of “The Marriage of Figaro” last night, (May 8), he spent some time in lockdown last year figuring out how to get the Mozart‘s famous opera down from around four hours to just one.
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