Walter Felsenstein. The Marriage of Figaro (1975)
When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro premièred at the Komische Oper Berlin on 26/07/1975, it was Walter Felsenstein’s last staging. The director had struggled with the work for several decades but was clearly never satisfied with what he achieved. He had already staged the work three times previously, in 1934 in Cologne, 1942 at the Salzburg Festival and 1950 at the Komische Oper, which he founded. Having fully revised the German version of the text for the Berlin staging in 1950, he based the 1975 reappraisal on a new translation. After a two-decade break, Felsenstein once again examined the text in terms of conciseness, comprehensibility and plausibility and collated it down to the rhyme structure to Lorenzo Da Ponte's libretto.
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