Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (2-DVD) – Ildebrando d’Arcangelo

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artists: Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Dorothea Röschmann, Anna Prohaska, Lauri Vasar, Marianne Crebassa, Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Directors: Jürgen Flimm, with Gudrun Hartmann
Format: NTSC
Language: Italian
Subtitles: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 2
Studio: Accentus
DVD Release Date: November 2, 2018
Run Time: 188 minutes

“Nothing is harder to put on stage than lightness. And humor is the sharpest weapon of the desperate. That is why it is an obligation, indeed a must, to enjoy this Figaro by Jürgen Flimm at the Staatsoper to the fullest.” – ARD Radio

This production of Le nozze di Figaro is directed by the former artistic director of the Staatsoper Berlin, Jürgen Flimm, who characterizes it as follows: “Figaro is by far the best work ever devised for the stage; it combines everything that moves the human heart and mind: forlorn hope, pleasantry, satire, profound significance, also much ado about nothing and vain amours.”

This production with a star-studded ensemble of soloists was Flimm’s third staging of this musical masterpiece, and this time he places the plot in Count Almaviva’s summer residence – a place where the count spent his childhood, a place full of memories, where time has left its marks. It is in this hot atmosphere of summer that the great day unfolds: holidays, sun, sea, pretty women take a fancy to pretty men and pretty men take a fancy to pretty women.

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