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, Burgtheater, Wien
Recorded: 2006, Teatro alla Scala
Il Conte di Almaviva - Pietro Spagnoli
La Contessa di Almaviva - Marcella Orsatti Talamanca
Susanna - Diana Damrau
Figaro - Ildebrando D’Arcangelo
Cherubino - Monica Bacelli
Marcellina - Jeannette Fischer
Bartolo - Maurizio Muraro
Basilio - Gregory Bonfatti
Don Curzio - Nicola Pamio
Barbarina - Oriana Kurteshi
Antonio - Matteo Peirone
Chorus master: Bruno Casoni
Giorgio Strehler, stage director (restaged by Marina Bianchi)
Ezio Frigerio, set designer
Franca Squarciapino, costume designer
Anna Maria Prina, choreographer
Gianni Mantovanni, lighting designer
Giorgio Strehler was one of Europe's most celebrated theatre directors. In his Piccolo Teatro in Milan he created outstanding interpretations of Bertolt Brecht and William Shakespeare. As an opera director he worked at all the major international opera houses, most notably the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, where he was responsible for productions of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra (1971), Macbeth (1975) and in 1980 for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. This legendary production of Mozart's masterpiece is now available as a 2006 recording, featuring the wonderful Diana Damrau as Susanna and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo as Figaro. |
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