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This short performance and lecture program highlights the relationships between visual art, history, and music surrounding Pensacola Opera’s upcoming performance of The Marriage of Figaro on January 24 & 26.

Pensacola Opera’s Artists in Residence will perform selections from the score as the Director of Education walks visitors through the plot. PMA’s Curator of Education Caitlin Rhea will also discuss several works of art in the PMA’s permanent collection made by female artists to coincide with the Opera’s theme.

Brief Summary of The Marriage of Figaro

Susanna and Figaro are getting married! There’s just one problem—Figaro’s boss, the overbearing and womanizing Count Almaviva, is trying to delay their marriage in order to seduce Susanna himself. Luckily, Figaro has a few tricks up his sleeve, enlisting the help of his fiancée and the Countess to expose the Count’s philandering ways. Mozart and Da Ponte’s timeless comedy—based on Beaumarchais’s sequel to The Barber of Seville—contains some of opera’s most brilliant music…and plenty of laughs!