The Marriage of Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
Opera in 2 parts and four acts
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on Beaumarchais’s comedy “The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro”
Performed in Lithuanian; translation by Vlada Mikštaitė
Premiere: 27 March 2026
Performed by the theatre’s soloists and choir artists

Opera director Viktorija Streiča says of the upcoming production that Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” is an opera in which comedy becomes a means of speaking about mechanisms of power, social hierarchy, and people’s efforts to preserve their dignity. This story is not about a wedding or an intrigue, but about who has the right to decide and who must put up with it; about structures in which freedom becomes a privilege and dependence the norm. This production is about the present day, about patriarchy, where women are still described as “belonging” to someone; about how “I do what I want” becomes the everyday practice of the powerful; and about how love, wisdom, and solidarity become a quiet form of resistance. The opera will remain a comedy, but it will speak about serious matters. Here, laughter is not an escape but a critique. The absurd is not decoration but a form of truth. The characters are vivid, the emotions extreme, the situations heated, but everything serves one purpose: to expose injustice so that it can be recognised, named, and destroyed.