Cupid’s arrows fly around as they please, binding the seemingly incompatible and dividing the seemingly inseparable. Mozart’s philandering Count Almaviva, his neglected wife Rosina, the Countess’s pretty maid Susanna and the crafty, albeit occasionally naïve, valet Figaro know all too well … The new National Theatre production of Le nozze di Figaro has been created by two distinguished female artists: the English conductor Julia Jones and the Czech stage director Barbora Horáková Joly.

Le nozze di Figaro

The Estates Theatre

A gem of Baroque music, one of the oldest still widely performed and popular operas, the first world-class English opera ... These are among the attributes of Henry Purcell’s best-known work, whose genesis is not yet clear, a work that has not survived in its entirety. The opera was probably first performed in 1689 at the dance master and choreographer Josias Priest’s boarding school for young gentlewomen in Chelsea, London. Some scholars have, however, argued that Purcell wrote the piece for the English court, either for James II or, even earlier, for Charles II. Still others claim that the opera bears within a covert allegory, veiled in a mythological story, with the witches symbolising the Catholic Church, highly unpopular in the England of the time ...

Dido and Aeneas

After 15 years, a Baroque opera is returning to the National Theatre repertoire, and after a full quarter-century the National Theatre staged a work by Jean-Philippe Rameau, the guru of 18th-century French opera: the globally renowned comédie lyrique Platée, which, however, has never before been performed in the entire history of the National Theatre and the State Opera, and its predecessor, the Neues deutsches Theater.

Tomáš Šelc

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 25, 2026 - May 8, 2027

Le nozze di Figaro · Národní divadlo

2 - 13 Dec, 2026

Dido and Aeneas · Národní divadlo

Mar 7, 2027

Platée · Národní divadlo

Apr 13, 2027

Bach and his sons IV · Prague Symphony Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Ismeron in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell

Národní divadlo

Singer in Per questa bella mano by Mozart

Prague Symphony Orchestra

Cithéron in Platée by Rameau

Národní divadlo

Satyr in Platée by Rameau

Národní divadlo

Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart

Národní divadlo

Singer in Orchestral Suite in G minor by Bach

Prague Symphony Orchestra

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