Opera (commedia per musica) in 4 acts
Libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte (aka: Emmanuele Conegliano) after Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
First performance: May 1, 1786, Wien, Burgtheater
* This production, as one would expect from one with John Eliot Gardiner, offers the fruit of the maestro's musicological research into the score and what should the real sequence be - See his accompanying article "A Better Order for Figaro?".
* The production features a young cast, headed by Bryn Terfel in the title role of Figaro. Here is a high quality visual document of this artist's extraordinary stage-presence and charisma to be enjoyed to the full!
* Watch the clip of Bryn Terfel singing the famous aria "Non piu andrai", where Figaro paints a vivid picture of the glories and terrors of military life.
Il Conte di Almaviva - Rodney Gilfry
La Contessa di Almaviva - Hillevi Martinpelto
Susanna - Alison Hagley
Figaro - Bryn Terfel
Cherubino - Pamela Helen Stephen
Marcellina - Susan McCulloch
Bartolo - Carlos Feller
Basilio / Don Curzio - Francis Egerton
Antonio - Julian Clarkson
Barbarina - Constanze Backes
Directed: Olivier Mille |
[ NTSC ]