Meet the cast of “The Marriage of Figaro”
Meet the outstanding Opera Grand Rapids cast, including seasoned singers receiving critical acclaim for their performances at prestigious opera companies around the globe.
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Opera Grand Rapids brings “The Marriage of Figaro,” with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to DeVos Performance Hall this weekend, May 4 and 5. Tickets for this last production of the company’s 50th anniversary year, start at $25 or $5 for students and can be purchased online.
Featuring Mozart at the height of his creative genius, in what many consider to be the greatest opera of all time, is a tangled tale of farce and folly ending, at last, in love. Below its madcap surface, an age-old wisdom is revealed: wealth and power are no match for ingenuity and authenticity. Musically sophisticated, yet catchy; screwball, yet poignant; this opera sparkles with genius from overture to finale.
Meet the outstanding cast of The Marriage of Figaro.
Opera Grand Rapids cast for “The Marriage of Figaro” includes seasoned singers receiving critical acclaim for their performances at prestigious opera companies around the globe.
Maestro James Meena
Mo. Meena consistently earns critical acclaim for his artistic vision and dynamic presence on the podium. The breadth of his repertoire is represented by the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Puccini, Berlioz and Verdi, the world première of Victor Davies’ Transit of Venus, to full ballet productions and symphony concerts. More
Garnett Bruce | Director
Garnett Bruce’s body of work includes directing at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, and his European opera debut staging Turandot for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. Known especially for his large-scale work of the standard repertoire, he has created stagings of Turandot, Carmen, Tosca, Aida, Pagliacci, and La bohème that have been seen coast to coast. More
Joseph Barron | Figaro
Hailed by Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times as “vocally robust” and “lyrically malevolent”, American Bass-Baritone Joseph Barron was a winner of the 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the 2013 Sullivan Foundation Awards. More
Raphaella Di Caprio | Susannah
Italian soprano, Raffaella Di Caprio, is a recent graduate cum laude of Conservatorio di Musica Domenico Cimarosa in Avellino, and she’s currently studying under the tutelage of renowned soprano Mariella Devia. More
Melinda Whittington | Countess
The Philadelphia Inquirer hails Melinda Whittington as “especially marvelous in handling the rapturous jail scene music” in recent performances of Marguerite in Faust. In the 2016–17 season, she returns to Arizona Opera for the title role of Rusalka in addition to joining Utah Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Greensboro Opera as Micaëla in Carmen, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago for its production of Eugene Onegin. More
Carsten Wittmoser | Count
Carsten Wittmoser, Bass-Baritone, was born in Essen, Germany. Mr. Wittmoser graduated in economics at the University of Essen and studied voice with Hendrikus Rootering. He began his career at the Stuttgart Staatsoper. He became a principal soloist at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, after which followed engagements with the Landestheater Linz, the Opera of Freiburg and the Hamburgische Staatsoper. More
Diane Schoff | Marcellina
Diane Schoff performs regularly with Michigan Opera Theatre both as a part of the ensemble and in comprimario roles. Recent career highlights include the second lady in Mozart’s Magic Flute (May 2016) the Second Maid in Elektra (October 2014), Natalia Trotsky in Frida (March 2015), and Praskovia in The Merry Widow (May 2015)
with MOT. More
Eric Jordan | Bartolo
Bass Eric Jordan has been sought by opera companies for his trademark “big bass and presence to match” (Opera News). His voice is described as possessing “a resonant, ringing tone” (St Louis Post-Dispatch), and the New York Times opines that his “powerful, nuanced singing
and thoughtful acting amounted to a wholly remarkable portrayal.” More
The Marriage of Figaro by W. A. Mozart
May 4 & 5 | 7:30 PM | DeVos Performance Hall
TICKETS Starting at $25 | Students $5
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