Film

The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro

7.020253h 55mMusic

Director: Richard Eyre
Year: 2025

Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bass-baritone Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite soprano Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins is the skirt-chasing Count, with soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife and mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Top cast

Michael Sumuel

Figaro

Olga Kulchynska

Susanna

Maurizio Muraro

Dr. Bartolo

Elizabeth Bishop

Marcellina

Sun-Ly Pierce

Cherubino

Joshua Hopkins

Count

Federica Lombardi

Countess

Brenton Ryan

Don Basilio

Paul Corona

Antonio

Mei Gui Zhang

Barbarina

Tony Stevenson

Don Curzio

Directed by

Richard Eyre

Written by

Lorenzo da Ponte, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais