MET - LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

Music Review - 'Le Nozze di Figaro' - Danielle de Niese and John Relyea Enliven Met’s Production - NYTimes.com: "Music Review 'Le Nozze di Figaro'
‘Figaro,’ Rooted in the 1700s, Still Knows How to Laugh
ALLAN KOZINN
Published: September 23, 2009
If the Metropolitan Opera continues on its current path, Jonathan Miller’s 1998 production of Mozart’s “Nozze di Figaro” will be succeeded either by a version couched in the glitzy conventions of Broadway or by a European high-concept staging in which the action is presented as, perhaps, a hallucination of an institutionalized Don Basilio."