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Mozart – Le Nozze Di Figaro (Highlights) / Allen, Battle, Hynninen, Price / Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti / EMI Classics Audio CD 2001 Stereo
UPC 724357457927
The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) 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.
The opera is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas.
Tracklist:
| Act I | |||
| 1 | Se A Caso Madama | 2:28 | |
| 2 | Non Si Più Cosa Son Cosa Faccio |
3:05 | |
| 3 | Cosa Sento! | 4:01 | |
| 4 | Non Più Andrai | 3:37 | |
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Act II |
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| 5 | Porgi Amor | 3:44 | |
| 6 | Voi, Che Sapete | 2:53 | |
| 7 | Susanna Or Via Sortite | 3:04 | |
| 8 | Aprite Presto Aprite | 1:08 | |
| 9 | Signori Di Fuori | 3:13 | |
| 10 | Ah Signor...Signor... | 5:09 | |
| 11 | Voi Signor Che Giusto Siete | 3:40 | |
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Act III |
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| 12 | Crudel! Perché Finora | 2:32 | |
| 13 | Vedrò Mentre Io Sospiro | 3:15 | |
| 14 | E Susanna Non Vien! | 1:59 | |
| 15 | Dove Sono | 4:16 | |
| 16 |
Canzonetta Sull'Aria | 2:26 | |
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Act IV |
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| 17 | Aprite Un Po' Quegl'Occhi | 2:37 | |
| 18 | Giunse Alfin Il Momento | 1:31 | |
| 19 | Deh Vieni Non Tardar | 3:21 | |
| 20 | Tutto È Tranquillo E Placido | 3:50 | |
| 21 | Pace Pace, Mio Dolce Tesoro | 1:51 | |
| 22 | Gente Gente, All'Armi | 3:34 | |
| 23 | Questo Giorno Di Tormenti | 1:22 |
- Choir – Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
- Composed By – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Conductor – Riccardo Muti
- Design – Darren Rumney, Stuart Wilson (2)
- Engineer – John Kurlander
- Orchestra – Wiener Philharmoniker
- Performer [Antonio] – Franco de Grandis
- Performer [Barbarina] – Patrizia Pace
- Performer [Bartolo] – Kurt Rydl
- Performer [Cherubino] – Ann Murray
- Performer [Don Curzio] – Ernesto Gavazzi
- Performer [Figaro] – Thomas Allen
- Performer [Graf Almaviva] – Jorma Hynninen
- Performer [Gräfin Almaviva] – Margaret Price
- Performer [Marcellina] – Mariana Nicolesco
- Performer [Susanna] – Kathleen Battle
- Producer – James Mallinson
