W.A.Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro Bluray Disc 2006 Wiener Philharmoniker - Nikolaus Harnoncourt / Directed by Brian Large / Cast: Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Bo Skovhus, Doroteha Röschmann / Deutsche Grammphon - Unitel Classica

UPC / EAN 044007344927

Bluray Disc 1080i

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: Italian 5.1, Italian 2.0

SUBTITLES: English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese

Total Runtime: 202 MINUTES

English Summary:

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.

Christine Schäfer (Soprano),

Dorothea Röschmann (Soprano),

Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (Bass-Baritone),

Anna Netrebko (Soprano),

Marie McLaughlin (Soprano),

Oliver Ringelhahn (Tenor),

Bo Skovhus (Baritone),

Franz-Josef Selig (Bass),

Florian Boesch (Baritone),

Patrick Henckens (Tenor)

Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor

Wiener Philharmoniker

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Conductor)

Claus Guth (Director)