This website is the project of the Fall 2025 Mount Holyoke College seminar Music Analysis: Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. We would like to thank Annie Tucker and Matthew Newman, Instructional Technologists on the LITS Educational Technology team, for their support in developing the site.
And special thanks to Liz Coon ’28 for designing our “Figaro Files” homepage header, and all the period-style silhouette portraits! (Eat your heart out, Hieronymus Löschenkohl)
Meet the contributors:
Adeline Mueller (she/her) is a music historian who has taught at Mount Holyoke College since 2015. She researches opera and art song by Mozart and his contemporaries, particularly in German-speaking Europe, with additional research interests in music and childhood, music and disability, music and silent film, and marginalized composers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She has published numerous journal articles and contributed chapters to The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute (2023), Mozart in Context (Cambridge, 2018), and Mozart and His World (forthcoming, 2026), among others.
Figaro character quiz result: the Count?!?
Brianna Torres (she/her) is in the class of 2026 and is a Music major and Art Studio minor. She plays flute in the Symphony Orchestra, and her favorite repertoire is Russian classical music.
Figaro character quiz result: Count Almaviva
Emma Harrison (she/her) is in the class of 2026, studying Art History and French. She has been playing the violin since she was three years old, and currently plays violin in the Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra. She also sings in the Mount Holyoke Glee Club.
Figaro character quiz result: “Susanna! I think her creativity throughout the opera speaks well to my passion for the intersection of art and music.”
One fun memory: “After registering for this class, I saw a wild production of The Marriage of Figaro in Vienna at the Volksoper, which made me even more excited to take the course! It was great fun to share my experience when I brought a recording of it to class for a discussion on the infamous imbroglio of the Act II Finale.”
Elizabeth (Liz) Coon (she/her) is a member of the Class of 2028, majoring in Computer Science and Music. She is a singer who loves rock music, musical theatre, and opera.
Figaro character quiz result: “I got Cherubino, and I’m covering Cherubino in the production, as well as singing in the chorus!”
Lucy Garrison (she/her) is in the class of 2027 and a History major. She has been singing in choirs since she was six, and currently sings in Glee Club and Vocal Jazz. One of her favorite pieces she’s ever sung is the Brahms Requiem.
Figaro character quiz result: Susanna
Madeline Hood is in the class of 2027 majoring in both Music and Environmental Studies. Their favorite repertoire as a viola player is the “Montagues and Capulets” from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet.
Figaro character quiz result: The Countess
Siggy Ehrlich (they/them) is in the class of 2026, studying Music and History with a Nexus in Museums/Archives/Public History. They play the string bass and are interested in a career in music and ensemble librarianship.
Favorite number in Figaro: “Cosa Sento!”
Vicky Gao is an Economics and Music double major in the Class of 2028.
Victoria Schubarg is a Music major in the class of 2026 and is a Student Liaison for the department. She has played flute and piccolo in multiple ensembles at Mount Holyoke, including the Symphony Orchestra, Flute Choir, Klezmer Ensemble, and woodwind chamber ensemble. Besides flute, she also enjoys music theory and composition.