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W.A. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro DVD 2002 The Marriage of Figaro / Directed by Georg Wübbolt / Text and Narration by Sir Peter Ustinov / The Salzburg Marionette Theatre / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini

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W.A. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro DVD 2002 The Marriage of Figaro / Directed by Georg Wübbolt / Text and Narration by Sir Peter Ustinov / The Salzburg Marionette Theatre / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini

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REGION 0 PAL DVD

MADE IN GERMANY

AUDIO: Digitally remastered MONO

SUBTITLES: -

TOTAL RUNTIME: 130 minutes

 

English Summary:

The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro]), 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 a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"), which was first performed in 1784. 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.

 

Carlo Maria Giulini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI; 9 May 1914 – 14 June 2005) was an Italian conductor. From the age of five, when he began to play the violin, Giulini’s musical education was expanded when he began to study at Italy's foremost conservatory, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome at the age of 16. Initially, he studied the viola and conducting; then, following an audition, he won a place in the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Although he won a conducting competition two years later, he was unable to take advantage of the prize, which was the opportunity to conduct, because of being forced to join the army during World War II, albeit that he was a pacifist. As the war was ending, he hid until the liberation to avoid continuing to fight alongside the Germans. While in hiding, he married his girlfriend, Marcella, and they remained together until her death in 1995. Together, they had three children

 

Text and Narrator: Sir Peter Ustinov

Producer: Wolf-Dieter Ludwig

London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir

Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini

A production of ZDF and 3sat

Directed by Georg Wübbolt

 

German Summary:

Le nozze di Figaro, zu deutsch Die Hochzeit des Figaro oder Figaros Hochzeit, ist eine Opera buffa in vier Akten von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (KV 492). Das italienische Libretto stammt von Lorenzo Da Ponte und basiert auf der Komödie La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro (Der tolle Tag oder Die Hochzeit des Figaro) von Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais aus dem Jahr 1778. Die Uraufführung durch die Wiener Hofoper fand am 1. Mai 1786 im Burgtheater am Michaelerplatz statt.

Carlo Maria Giulini (9. Mai 1914 in Barletta, Provinz Barletta-Andria-Trani, Süditalien; † 14. Juni 2005 in Brescia, Lombardei) war ein italienischer Dirigent.

Giulini wuchs in Bozen auf und sprach daher neben Italienisch auch fließend Deutsch. Er studierte von 1930 an Geige, Komposition und Dirigieren an der Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rom, wurde danach Bratschist und wechselte 1944 in die Dirigentenlaufbahn.

Von 1946 bis 1951 dirigierte er das RAI-Rundfunkorchester in Rom und ab 1950 das neu gegründete RAI-Orchester von Mailand. Sein Operndebüt gab er 1948 in Bergamo mit Verdis La traviata, sein Debüt an der Mailänder Scala erfolgte 1952 mit La vida breve (Das kurze Leben) von de Falla. Von 1953 bis 1956 war er an der Scala Nachfolger de Sabatas, hier war er u. a. 1954 an der berühmten Traviata-Inszenierung mit Maria Callas unter der Regie von Luchino Visconti beteiligt. 1955 hatte er in Chicago sein USA-Debüt. Seit 1956 arbeitete er ohne feste Bindung an ein Orchester, häufig mit dem Philharmonia Orchestra in London. Er konzentrierte sich ab 1967 auf Sinfoniekonzerte, vor allem auf die Werke Bruckners, Brahms' und Mahlers. Erst 1982 dirigierte er wieder eine Oper, den Falstaff von Verdi, in Los Angeles.

 

Text und Sprecher: Sir Peter Ustinov

Inszenierung: Wolf-Dieter Ludwig

London Philharmoniker und Chorus

Dirigent: Carlo Maria Giulini

Eine produktion von ZDF und 3sat, 1995

Regie Georg Wübbolt

 

CAST:

Figaro: Giuseppe Taddei

Susanna: Anna Moffo

Il Conte d'Almaviva: Eberhard Wächter

La Contessa d'Almaviva: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Cherubino: Fiorenza Cossotto

Bartolo: Ivo Vinco

Marcelina: Dora Gatta

Don Basilio / Don Curzio: Renato Ercolani

Barbarina: Elisabetta Fusco

Antonio: Piero Cappuccilli

Due ragazze: Gillian Spencer & Diana Gillingham

 

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