Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (DVD) – Riccardo Fassi, Giulia Semenzato
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (DVD) – Riccardo Fassi, Giulia Semenzato
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artists: Riccardo Fassi, Giulia Semenzato, Germán E. Alcántara, Federica Lombardi, Hanna Hipp, Gregory Bonfatti, Monica Bacelli, Gianluca Buratto, Jeremy White, Alexandra Lowe, Alasdair Elliott, Helen Withers, Miranda Westcott, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Director: David McVicar
Video Format: NTSC 16:9
Sound Format: Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.0
Region: All Regions
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Opus Arte
Release Date: July 13, 2023
Run Time: 185 minutes; plus 13 minutes bonus material
From the headlong rush of the overture, Mozart’s timeless comedy is a breathless journey through one very eventful day in the life of an 1830s château. Figaro and his bride Susanna conspire to foil the unwanted advances of Count Almaviva, while the Countess has her heart stolen by a cross-dressing pageboy. Mozart’s music unfolds with beautiful solos and ensembles to amplify the deep emotions behind the seemingly farcical surface.
Antonio Pappano, Music Director of the Royal Opera, brings his specialist perspective to Mozart’s effervescent score. A young and predominantly Italian cast, including Riccardo Fassi, Giulia Semenzato and Germán E. Alcántara, perform this revival of David McVicar’s sumptuous and hugely popular period staging.
History
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Le Nozze di Figaro
World premiere: Burgtheater, Vienna, 1786. A profoundly humane comedy, Le Nozze di Figaro is a remarkable marriage of Mozart’s music at the height of his genius and one of the best librettos ever set. In adapting a play that caused a scandal with its revolutionary take on 18th-century society, librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte focused less on the original topical references and more on the timeless issues embedded in the frothy drawing-room comedy.
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