The Salzburg Festival has a new production of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. It’s a good one, too. This is rarer than you may suppose. For my review at The New Criterion, go here.

As I say at the end of this review, I did a public interview of Werner Hink some years ago. He was a concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic. He said he had played The Marriage of Figaro more than 500 times at that point. And never tired of it — always basked in it.

Which is understandable.