“With men, my lady, you always twist and turn, but in the end you’ll give in,” sings the fair Susanna (soprano Kerianne Carlton) to the Countess Almaviva (soprano Seong Shin Ra) in the University Opera’s production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro,” or “The Marriage of Figaro.”
But as with all good opera, the men also do their share of giving in, much to the delight of the capacity crowd filling the Rennebohm Auditorium in Music Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus for Friday’s soldout performance. The University Opera’s three-hour production mixes humor with stellar performances that, despite an odd stage set, succeeds with a great deal of style and wit.