OPERA NIGHT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT

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, soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and mezzo-sopranos Sun-Ly Pierce in the role of the adolescent page Cherubino.

RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 26th April, 7pm-10pm

Michael Sumuel as Figaro and Olga Kulchynska as Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. Photo: Evan Zimmerman, Met Opera