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Mozart - Le Nozze Di Figaro (Highlight) - Schwarzkopf; Moffo; Taddei; Cossotto; Wachter; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Giulini / EMI Classics Audio CD 1989 Stereo
UPC 724347955228
The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro]), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"). It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity.
Considered one of the greatest operas ever written, it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas. In 2017, BBC News Magazine asked 172 opera singers to vote for the best operas ever written. The Marriage of Figaro came in first out of the 20 operas featured, with the magazine describing the work as being "one of the supreme masterpieces of operatic comedy, whose rich sense of humanity shines out of Mozart’s miraculous score".
| Label: | EMI Classics – 724347955228 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Holland |
| Released: |
1989 |
| Genre: | Classical |
Tracklist:
ATTO I
1. Overture/ouverture/Ouvertùre 4.14
2. “Se vuol ballare” (Figaro) 2.24
3. Aria “Non so più cosa son” (Cherubino) 2.48
4. Aria “Non più andrai” (Figaro) 3.45
ATTO II
5. Cavatina “Porgi amor” (La Contessa) 3.41
6. Canzone “Voi che sapete” (Cherubino) 2.33
7. Finale “Conoscete, signor Figaro”
(Figaro/Antonio/Il Conte/La Contessa/Susanna/Marcellina/Basilio/Bartolo) 12.16
ATTO III
8. Duo “Crudel! Perchè finora farmi languir così” (Il Conte/Susanna) 2.42
9. Recitativo e aria “Hai già vinta la causa ? Vedro mentr'io sospiro” (Il Conte) 4.49
10. Recitativo e aria “E Susanna non vien 2... Dove sono” (La Contessa) 5.51
11. Duettino “Canzonetta sul’aria” (La Contessa/Susanna) 2.36
ATTO IV
12. Recitativo è aria “Tutto e disposto... Aprite un po’ quegli occhi” (Figaro) 3.57
13. Recitativo e aria “Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni, non tardar” (Susanna) 4.13
14. Finale “Gente, gente ! All'armi” (Il Conte/Figaro/Don Curzio/Basilio/
Antonio/Bartolo/Susanna/Marcellina/ Cherubino/Barbarina/La Contessa) 4.56
- Orchestra, Choir - Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus
- Chorus master - Roberto Benaglio
- Conducted by - Carlo Maria Giulini
