NZ release date: 17/07/2025

Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino.

COMPOSER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

CONDUCTOR: Joana Mallwitz

PRODUCTION: Richard Eyre

SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER: Rob Howell

LIGHTING DESIGNER: Duane Schuler

CHOREOGRAPHER: Sara Erde

CAST: Federica Lombardi, Olga Kulchynska, Marianne Crebassa,Elizabeth Bishop, Joshua Hopkins, Michael Sumuel, Maurizio Muraro