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Le Nozze di Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ring Award

Audience Prize

Director - Orpha Phelan

Set and Costume Designer  - Leslie Travers

Conductor - Kajsa Boström


Il Conte di Almaviva - Alexander Puhrer

La Contessa di Almaviva - Dorit Machatsch

Susanna - Hyon Lee

Figaro - Wilfried Zelinka

Cherubino / Marcellina - Lucia Magyesi Schwartz

Bartolo / Antonio - Shavleg Macharashvili

Basilio - Andries Cloet

A triennial international competition for stage direction and design, The Ring Award is organised by Graz Oper and Wagner Forum Graz. One hundred and ninety participants from twenty-seven countries submitted their concepts for Le Nozze di Figaro for The Ring Award in July 2004. Nine teams progressed to the semi-finals in Austria in January 2005. As finalists, Orpha Phelan and Leslie Travers were then invited to realise their concept of Act II in July 2005.  They were awarded  The Audience Prize.

Graz Opera

Wagner Forum Graz

Austria

2005

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