It was with some excitement that I attended the WNO’s production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on Thursday night.

It seemed like an age since I had seen them stage a Mozart opera (the last one I saw was Don Giovanni in 2022), and I do love eighteenth-century music.

Further, I had not seen this production before, even though it was first staged in 2016, and I fondly remember a previous production set in the 1930s.

The current production (a co-production with Grand Théâtre de........

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