Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Blu-Ray) – Krzysztof Baczyk, Sabine Devieilhe

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artists: Krzysztof Baczyk, Sabine Devieilhe, Andrè Schuen, Adriana González, Lea Desandre, Kristina Hammarström, Peter Kálmán, Manuel Günther, Andrew Morstein, Serafina Starke, Rafal Pawnuk, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor: Raphaël Pichon
Director: Martin Kušej
Video Format: 1080i 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo / DTS-HD MA 5.1
Region: All Regions
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Unitel Edition
Release Date: August 30, 2024
Run Time: 178 minutes

Le nozze di Figaro is Lorenzo Da Ponte’s and Mozart’s first of three jointly created operas about attempts at interpersonal relationships: a turbulent comedy with erotic entanglements, which was not a harmless comedy even in Mozart’s day. 

Director Martin Kušej moves the drama of love and jealousy to a mafia-like urban milieu where conflicts are fought with pistols. Young French conductor Raphaël Pichon, for the first time on the podium of the Wiener Philharmoniker, leads a young ensemble of singers around clan boss Almaviva (“vocally flawlessly brilliant André Schuen,” Hamburger Abendblatt).

“Kušej’s staging is musical, Pichon’s conducting theatrical; the two work together to a degree that is far more rare than it should be. Every detail has been carefully thought through, and the symbiosis is breathtaking.” (Financial Times)

“Martin Kušej’s new Figaro is slick, dark and grimly entertaining.” (Financial Times)

“One will rarely, if ever, hear Le nozze di Figaro so well balanced on stage, with such a homogeneous ensemble of such class, with such a precise Mozart sound.” (Frankfurter Rundschau)

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