Le Nozze di Figaro
Director and Set Design
Opera Informations
COMPOSER
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
LIBRETTIST
Lorenzo da Ponte
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2025
GENRE
Opera
Production Creative Team
Produced by
Teatro Grattacielo
Director
Stefanos Koroneos
Conductor
Abdiel Vazquez
Set Designer
Stefanos Koroneos
Costume Designer
Angela Huff
Lighting Designer
Will Rossiter
Performances
July 25th, 2025
La MaMa, The Downstairs Theater
New York City , USA
July 26th, 2025
La MaMa, The Downstairs Theater
New York City , USA
July 27th, 2025
La MaMa, The Downstairs Theater
New York City , USA
This production holds my spirit. It reflects not only my artistic practice, but my ongoing questions about how opera lives, breathes, and speaks to the world around us.
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’ The Marriage of Figaro has always fascinated me—not only as a brilliant comedy, but as a revolutionary act. Napoleon famously called it “the Revolution already put into action.” That line lives at the heart of this staging.
Here, shadows become language. They are not just visual—they are emotional. They represent what the characters suppress, what they cannot name, and what they fear. By shaping the space through light and absence, I wanted to reveal the fractures beneath their masks—the place where performance meets truth.
To deepen the dialogue between past and present, I’ve also woven fragments of Beaumarchais’ original text into the score. His voice—irreverent, sharp, deeply human—echoes within Mozart’s music, and within our own moment.—