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Mozart Arias: The Marriage of Figaro at St Gregory's Centre for Music

In association with the Kent and Canterbury Club.

The programme presents the ten soprano arias that Mozart composed for his Marriage of Figaro. Eight of the ten arias were composed for the first performances in Vienna, in 1786, including two arias for the lady's maid, Susanna.

But when Mozart revived the opera three years later in Vienna, he substituted two totally different arias for Susanna. The revival performances in 1789 were even more successful than the original performances in 1786.
Dorothée Jansen (soprano), Haydn Rawstron (Continuo) and Hanns-Heinz Odenthal (Violino)