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[seekingferret]

I saw Le Nozze di Figaro again Monday night. Third time seeing it at the Met, and second time in this production. I could see it many more times. I always kind of snickered at those Broadway commercials they show around the local evening news (this is probably a NY Metro area only thing) where people talked about having seen Phantom of the Opera twenty times or whatever, but I appear to be on my way to a similar result.

Still the greatest opera ever written, still alternately hilarious and moving and sometimes both at once. Still the most astonishing score, the greatest musical characterizations, still FIGARO!!!!1 AND ROSINA!!!111 AND SUSANA!!!11 AND CHERUBINOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!111111!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, Mozart is the best. I'm struggling to be articulate in new ways about the reasons why as I've written plenty already about why I love Figaro.

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[cahn]

Figaro is THE BEST. I mean, literally the best opera.

I seriously considered seeing it twice several years ago when it came to the regional opera here -- which was a quite good production for a regional opera, with a lovely Susanna and generally really good staging which broke down into utter confusion (not, I think, intentionally) in the last act -- and I totally would have gone again if I hadn't had the small kid.

[seekingferret]

Yeah, I say all the time, Moses und Aron is my favorite opera, but Marriage of Figaro is actually the best opera. Philadelphia Opera Company is doing it next season and I'm sure I'll see it there, too.