Le nozze di Figaro [videorecording] / [music by] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; production of Unitel GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, and BFMI GmbH, Salzburg, in co-production with ORF, BR and Classica, in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival ; staged by Claus Guth ; directed by Brian Large.
Title from container. Ildebrando D'Archangelo (Figaro); Anna Netrebko (Susanna); Bo Skovhus (Il Conte Di Almaviva); Dorothea Röschmann (La Contessa); Christine Schäfer (Cherubino) ; Wiener Philharmoniker ; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor. Recorded 22-26, July 2006 at Salzburg, Haus für Mozart.
Summary:
Preparing for their wedding, the valet Figaro learns from the maid Susanna that their philandering employer, Count Almaviva, has designs on her. In her boudoir, the Countess laments her husband's waning love but plots to chasten him, encouraged by Figaro and Susanna. Susanna leads the Count on with promises of a rendezvous in the garden. Alone later that day, Susanna rhapsodizes on her love for Figaro, but he, overhearing, thinks she means the Count. Almaviva chases Cherubino away and sends his wife, who he thinks is Susanna, to an arbor, to which he follows. By now Figaro understands the joke and, joining the fun, makes exaggerated love to Susanna in her Countess disguise. The Count returns, seeing, or so he thinks, Figaro with his wife. Outraged, he calls everyone to witness his judgment, but now the real Countess appears and reveals the ruse. Grasping the truth at last, the Count begs her pardon.
Series:
M Mozart 22 : Salzburg Festival 2006, the complete 22 operas / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Operas. 2006.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)86069638
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
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