The Marriage of Figaro♪, W. A. Mozart, the 15.
Swan Lake♪, P. I. Tchaikovsky, the 17.
from Friday 14 to Wednesday 19 June 2024,
5 nights
Arrangement 2
Arrangement 2
The Marriage of Figaro
W. A. Mozart
W. A. Mozart
“Le nozze di figaro” marked the beginning of the happy and fruitful collaboration between W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, which was to bring both success and artistic satisfaction. Although Da Ponte, as a precautionary measure and in view of the sharp censorship, dispensed with the biting sarcasm of Beaumarchais’ original, which served as the model for the new opera buffa, there was still enough fuel in it to deal with a major theme of the time: The examination of the complex relationships between the social classes, or rather the discrimination of the lower classes by the upper ones.
While Count Almaviva embodies a reactionary representative of the nobility, the shrewd Figaro is presented as a representative of the rising third class. Two forces face each other here, each claiming power in pre-revolutionary Europe. Mozart found in this passionate and ironic piece so much of the shame and disappointments he had experienced during his artistic life that he let all his bitter experiences and mental anguish flow into the composition.
Despite the explosive theme, the premiere performance in Vienna in 1786 under the reign of Emperor Joseph II was a great success. Today "Le nozze di figaro" is one of the most popular and most performed operas worldwide.
While Count Almaviva embodies a reactionary representative of the nobility, the shrewd Figaro is presented as a representative of the rising third class. Two forces face each other here, each claiming power in pre-revolutionary Europe. Mozart found in this passionate and ironic piece so much of the shame and disappointments he had experienced during his artistic life that he let all his bitter experiences and mental anguish flow into the composition.
Despite the explosive theme, the premiere performance in Vienna in 1786 under the reign of Emperor Joseph II was a great success. Today "Le nozze di figaro" is one of the most popular and most performed operas worldwide.
Tabita Berglund - Bruno Ravella
Samantha Clarke, Claire Lees, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Rafael Fingerlos, David Ireland
Garsington Opera
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, B. Britten, the 16.
Douglas Boyd - Netia Jones
Lucy Crowe, Stéphanie Wake-Edwards, Camilla Harris, Iestyn Davies, Caspar Singh, Nicholas Crawley
Garsington Opera
Swan Lake
P. I. Tchaikovsky
P. I. Tchaikovsky
Who doesn’t immediately have the "Dance of the Four Little Swans" in their mind’s eye when they think of the subject of ballet? Or the touching pas de deux of the swan princess Odette and her prince Siegfried? Hardly any other work has had such a strong influence on ballet history up to the present day as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s "Swan Lake". Yet the reaction to the premiere at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater in 1877 was rather muted: the music too symphonic, but above all the choreography rather bland. The triumphant success of "Swan Lake" did not begin until 1895, when the choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov revised the ballet and staged it at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg - Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) had already died.
The choreography around the innocent white swan princess Odette, her seductive counterpart Odile in the form of the black swan and Siegfried searching for his great love is still considered the basis for all productions today.
The choreography around the innocent white swan princess Odette, her seductive counterpart Odile in the form of the black swan and Siegfried searching for his great love is still considered the basis for all productions today.
Kœn Kessels
Royal Opera House
Hotel informations for London & Garsington 2
Hartwell House & One Aldwych *****
The Hartwell House & Spa *****, located in the Vale of Aylesbury and just forty miles north west of London, is one of Buckinghamshire’s most celebrated country houses. Built in the early seventeenth century for the Hampden family, the house has both Jacobean and Georgian features with outstanding decorative plaster-work and panelling. Its fine elegant reception and dining rooms create the ambience of a great country house. The forty-six bedrooms, including those in the adjacent Hartwell Court, are individually furnished with fine prints, pictures and antiques.
You will reach the Garsington Opera in half-hour drive, we may organise for you the private transfers.
One Aldwych is an independently-owned, luxury London hotel with a difference - big enough to excite, yet small enough to care. This contemporary hotel offers everything needed for the ultimate stay in central London: creative cocktails in the seriously stylish Lobby Bar, inventive British dishes in Indigo restaurant, an 18-metre swimming pool and outstanding treatments at The Health Club, a magical afternoon tea inspired by Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and a private guest lounge, as well as beautiful bedrooms and suites.
Set in an enviable location, in the centre of London’s Covent Garden, One Aldwych is perfectly placed for the best restaurants, big-hit galleries, must-see museums and great shopping.
You will reach the Garsington Opera in half-hour drive, we may organise for you the private transfers.
One Aldwych is an independently-owned, luxury London hotel with a difference - big enough to excite, yet small enough to care. This contemporary hotel offers everything needed for the ultimate stay in central London: creative cocktails in the seriously stylish Lobby Bar, inventive British dishes in Indigo restaurant, an 18-metre swimming pool and outstanding treatments at The Health Club, a magical afternoon tea inspired by Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and a private guest lounge, as well as beautiful bedrooms and suites.
Set in an enviable location, in the centre of London’s Covent Garden, One Aldwych is perfectly placed for the best restaurants, big-hit galleries, must-see museums and great shopping.
All-inclusive price per person for London & Garsington 2
Single room/ night
Hartwell House & One Aldwych
from 4.990,- Euro
280-350,- Euro
The price includes
Overnights including breakfast, good opera tickets, scheduled flight, return taxi transfers, private transfer Garsington - London, festival transfers, picnic, travel cancellation expenses insurance.