Le nozze di Figaro /
Preparing for their wedding, the valet Figaro learns from the maid Susanna that their philandering employer, Count Almaviva, has designs on her. In her boudoir, the Countess laments her husband's waning love but plots to chasten him, encouraged by Figaro and Susanna. Susanna leads the Count on...
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| Language: | Italian |
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Waldron, England :
Opus Arte,
c2008
[East Sussex, U.K.] : c2006 |
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| Summary: | Preparing for their wedding, the valet Figaro learns from the maid Susanna that their philandering employer, Count Almaviva, has designs on her. In her boudoir, the Countess laments her husband's waning love but plots to chasten him, encouraged by Figaro and Susanna. Susanna leads the Count on with promises of a rendezvous in the garden. Alone later that day, Susanna rhapsodizes on her love for Figaro, but he, overhearing, thinks she means the Count. Almaviva chases Cherubino away and sends his wife, who he thinks is Susanna, to an arbor, to which he follows. By now Figaro understands the joke and, joining the fun, makes exaggerated love to Susanna in her Countess disguise. The Count returns, seeing, or so he thinks, Figaro with his wife. Outraged, he calls everyone to witness his judgment, but now the real Countess appears and reveals the ruse. Grasping the truth at last, the Count begs her pardon "Lorenzo Da Ponte's libretto and Mozart's music were to transform the stock characters of the opera buffa tradition into real human beings, making Le Nozze di Figaro one of the most sophisticated operas of all time. Christoph Marthaler's take on Mozart's classic is both daringly original and highly contemporary, the setting transposed to a wedding-dress shop lit with neon lights and a shabby register office"--Original container |
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| Item Description: | Extra features: Cast gallery, illustrated synopsis; mini documentary containing interviews with David McVicar, Antonio Pappano and principal members of the cast Includes extra features: illustrated synopsis ; cast gallery ; a day of real madness: a documentary film by Reiner E. Moritz, including interviews with Christoph Marthaler, Sylvain Cambreling and leading members of the cast Music, W.A. Mozart ; Libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte Opera buffa in 4 acts; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, after Beaumarchais Program notes and synopsis in English, French, and German Program notes by Reiner E. Moritz in English with translations in French and German |
| Physical Description: | 1 streaming video (202 min.) 1 streaming video (ca. 260 min.) |