| Back Cover Image | Label: OPUS ARTE
Catalog: OA0990D
Format: DVD Erwin Schrott, Miah Persson, Gerald Finley, Dorothea Röschmann, Graciela Araya, Ana James & Rinat Shaham
The Royal Opera Chorus & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio PappanoGRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER: DVD OF 2008
David McVicar's spellbinding production of Le Nozze di Figaro is set in the 1830's post-revolution France, where the inexorable unravelling of an old order has produced acute feelings of loss. In the relationship between Finley's suave, dashingly self-absorbed Count and Roschmann's passionately dignified countess, which lies at the tragic heart of the opera, the sexy ease between a feisty Figaro(Schrott) and a sassy Susanna(Persson is starkly absent, the tenacious spark between Marcellina and Bartolo suggesting what might be rekindled. Recorded in High Definition.
"Great comedy and a full range of human emotions." - excerpt from Wholenote Magazine review
Gramophone DVD of the Month - August 2008  Price: $57.98 |
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