Review: Figaros bröllop

An exuberant Figaro and an even sweeter Queruby

Jakob Höglund’s The Marriage of Figaro is a display of colour with the full range of desires. Alexander Wendelin’s Queruby wants everyone, and everyone desires him.

“How are you funny today? How do you raise thorny social issues, the balance of power and – as is the case in Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s The Marriage of Figaro from 1786 – the contradictions between counts and servants, between men and women, without hurting them? Director and choreographer Jakob Höglund has worked on the issue, sometimes it has been better, sometimes worse. His production of The Marriage of Figaro shows that he can be funny without hurting. The music is there, light, cheerfulness – like most things in comedy. The production is definitely more comedy than opera. 

“Alexander Wendelin’s Queruby really puts you in a good mood. He is always happy, he is dressed in cheerful colors and Wendelin can sing with an unspoiled voice.”