Bryn in 'Nozze di Figaro' 2007

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LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Saturday and Wednesday) An almost entirely new cast took over the Met's production of Mozart's Nozze di Figaro earlier this month, and the company could hardly put up a better roster of singers. The bass-baritone Bryn Terfel has said that these performances will be his last as Figaro, all the more reason to hear his hardy, impetuous and vocally robust portrayal. The baritone Simon Keenlyside brings en effective blend of vocal elegance and dramatic danger to his performance as the calculating Count Almaviva. The show is almost stolen, though, by the intensely expressive German soprano Anja Harteros as Countess Almaviva. At 8 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000, metopera.org; $220 tomorrow, $65 to $175 on Wednesday. (Anthony Tommasini)

Source: NY Times 23 Nov 2007