Le nozze di Figaro : opera in four acts / by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, composer.

Contributor:

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838, librettist.

Mezzo (Firm), production company.

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, performer.

Glyndebourne Productions, production company.

François Roussillon et associés, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Standardized Title:

Nozze di Figaro

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Operas.

Genre:

Operas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 minutes)

Other Title:

Marriage of Figaro

Place of Publication:

Lewes, England : Glyndebourne, 2012.

Language Note:

Sung in Italian ; with English subtitles.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Perhaps no opera is as closely and affectionately associated with a single house as Le nozze di Figaro is with Glyndebourne. Effortlessly witty yet shot through with pain and sadness, this deeply ambivalent day in the life of masters and servants as they scheme and outwit one another was Glyndebourne's opening production in 1934. Michael Grandage's staging ist eh seventh, set in a louche Sixties ambiance. Marshaled by the 'ideal pacing' of Robin Ticciati, a youthful cast of principals has 'no weak link' and 'looks gorgeous' (The Sunday Times) in a production that continues Glyndebourne's rewarding history of engagement with Mozart's and Da Ponte's 'day of madness'.

Participant:

Sally Matthews (Countess Almaviva) ; Vito Priante (Figaro) ; Audun Iversen (Count Almaviva) ; Lydia Teuscher (Susanna) ; Isabel Leonard (Cherubino) ; Ann Murray (Marcellina) ; Andrew Shore (Bartolo) ; Sarah Shafer (Barbarina) ; Alan Oke (Don Basilio) ; Colin Judson (Don Curzio) ; Nicholas Folwell (Antonio) ; Glyndebourne Chorus ; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ; Robin Ticciati, conductor.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 15, 2016).

Filmed at Glyndebourne, August 2012.

OCLC:

954042471