| The opera "Figaro" starts off with an aria which is | | | | what will be their wedding bed. Figaro, however is won |
| explosive in its opening notes. It building up to an | | | | over by Susana's near ecstasy, as he starts singing |
| enthusiastic first piece which is called "Cinque, Dieci, | | | | with her that her hat is indeed beautiful and all would |
| Venti, Trenta" (five, ten, twenty, thirty); these being the | | | | appear to be made just for them in the sheer delight |
| numbers which Figaro is using to measure a space in | | | | which surrounds them. It is in my opinion that this |
| the room he hopes will be the one he and his wife to | | | | particular area captures almost to perfection the joy |
| be; Susana will be sleeping in. It is as Figaro is | | | | which most couples experience before they are about |
| measuring a space for his wedding bed that his | | | | to get married as well as the general mood which |
| fiancée, Susana enters the room asking him to look | | | | encircles them before such an event. |
| at a hat which she has made for herself by saying | | | | From my point of view, I also find this opening piece to |
| "guarda un po mi caro Figaro, guarda un, guardo | | | | be the one which sets the tempo of the opera, not |
| adesso il mio capello", (take a look at my hat). The | | | | only musically but of the story and its eventual happy |
| music at this point builds up as one can sense the | | | | ending which goes through several moments of humor |
| almost ecstatic joy which Figaro and Susana feel | | | | before Figaro and Susana; can be declared man and |
| knowing that they soon will be man and wife. It being | | | | wife. Apart from liking this aria another reason why I |
| as if they are in a climatic spiral, where things could not | | | | have chosen to write about it is because the opera |
| get any better than they already are; as they are on | | | | "Figaro" will be performed this year in Warsaw's |
| the threshold of the most wonderful thing the world | | | | "Teatr Wielki" for the first time and it is with |
| has to offer. | | | | tremendous hope that I might be escorted by my |
| Figaro, for his part on the one hand is glad that Susana | | | | Joannuszka Slisznuszka that I try to point out the |
| has made herself such a lovely hat and that they will | | | | magnificence of this particular piece. It being one of |
| be getting married but on the other hand, is slightly | | | | many classics in the opera "Figaro" which in fact is one |
| annoyed that she will not let him concentrate on | | | | of Mozart's most successful operas along with "Don |
| measuring the space in which he has planned to place | | | | Giovanni" and "The Magic Flute". |