Mozart: La Finta Giardiniera

Don Anchise, Podestà di Lagonero: STUART KALE La Marchesa Violante / Sandrina: BRITT-MARIE ARUHN Il Contino Belfiore: RICHARD CROFT Arminda: EVA PILAT Il Cavalier Ramiro: ANNIKA SKOGLUND Serpetta: ANN CHRISTINE BIEL Roberto / Nardo: PETTERI SALOMAA

This perfect exposition starts off with three classic buffo roles: an amorous old man, a wily maid and a handsome young gardener. The Cavaliere offers a serious role à la opera seria. And a female gardener who is finta , in other words a fake, is a mezzo carattere, the title given in opera buffa to roles that are allowed to alternate between the comic and the serious, between sentimentality and drama. With its clever changes between major and minor keys, this plot is anything but clichéd. Kultur is proud to present Mozart from the intimate setting of Sweden's Drottningholm Court Theatre, dating back to 1766, providing a perfect stage for these operas and featuring excellent casts and superb directors, accompanied by period instruments for a truly authentic experience. 'For true Mozart stick with Drottningholm.' Gramophone 'Excellent standard... notable for the clarity of the period-instrument sound and for a production wholly appropriate to the tiny Drottningholm space.' Gramophone

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