BY KAREN BOSSICK

Mozart’s timeless masterpiece “The Marriage of Figaro,” or “Le Nozze di Figaro,” will headline the Metropolitan Opera’s live MetHD simulcast on Saturday.

The presentation will begin at 10:55 a.m. at Merlin’s Magic Lantern in Ketchum in partnership with the Sun Valley Opera and Broadway.

Tickets are $20 to $22, available by credit card at the door. The production runs three hours, and the concession stand will be open.

The opera is a sequel to “The Barber of Seville.”

This one, too, takes place in Seville, which was famous in Mozart’s time as a place filled with hot-blooded young men and exotically beautiful women sequestered behind latticed windows, or “jalousies” (which gave us our English word “jealousy”).

The city was the birthplace of the Don Juan legends, which Mozart and Da Ponte would mine for their subsequent masterpiece, Don Giovanni. 

Bass-baritone Michael Samuel and soprano Olga Kulchynska play the servants Figaro and Susanna, who foil their philandering employer Count Almaviva’s efforts to seduce Susanna, teaching him a lesson in fidelity.

Baritone Joshua Hopkins and soprano Federica Lombardi will play the Count and Countess. Mezzo-soprano Sun-ly Pierce will play the incorrigible page Cherubino.

The comedy is considered one of the greatest operas ever written and contains a multitude of familiar arias.