figaro gets a divorce

[lennygoran]

Never heard of Langer. Len

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/077427-00 ... de-geneve/

[John F]

There's already been an opera with that title, "Figaro lässt sich scheiden," by Giselher Klebe, premiered in 1963 after which it sank out of sight. It was based on a 1936 play by Ödön von Horváth, whose fortunes outside Germany have been no better. Why Elena Langer (who I don't know) thought this worth resurrecting, and the Welsh National Opera and the Geneva opera thought it worth producing, no doubt they know, but I can't guess.

An English-language version of the Geneva comments is here:

https://www.wno.org.uk/divorce