The Sunday Telegraph London, January 28th, 2007
ENO opened the second leg of its winter season with the second cast in Olivia Fuchs's new production of The Marriage of Figaro. This time round it's a tauter, more coherent show, and the 1920s country- house setting inhabited by the old Edwardian order successfully evokes imminent social upheaval. The projections of the galloping horse during the Count's Act III aria and of a flower disintegrating during one of the Countess's arias have been dropped - no great loss - and the references to Figaro's First World War experiences in the trenches have been played down and are all the more telling fo...
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