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Title: Figaro a Mess
Review: Mozart's best opera is done almost no justice with this poorly staged, boring mess. The set is sparse and uninteresting and the perfmormers lack the spontenaeity and vim that Mozart/DaPonte's characters require. Furlanetto is terrific as Figaro, and Szymtka is a charming Susanna, but neither the countess (played like an amateur) nor the count (simply boring) hold our attention. The actual blocking looks as if it were done by a first-year directing student. It is often imbalanced and, again, because it rarely enhances the dramatic tension of the (admittedly tense) situation, it is boring. Simply put, this opera needs to be put up by a cast of talented actors (singing isn't enough for -Figaro-) and a director sensitive to the subtlties of Mozart's complex and emotionally nuanced score.
