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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Highlights) - Charlotte Margiono, Barbara Bonney, Thomas Hampson, Anton Scharinger, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt / Apex Audio CD 2004 / 2564-61514-2
UPC 825646151424
The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro]), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"). It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity.
Considered one of the greatest operas ever written, it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas. In 2017, BBC News Magazine asked 172 opera singers to vote for the best operas ever written. The Marriage of Figaro came in first out of the 20 operas featured, with the magazine describing the work as being "one of the supreme masterpieces of operatic comedy, whose rich sense of humanity shines out of Mozart’s miraculous score".
| Label: | Apex – 2564-61514-2 |
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| Format: |
CD
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| Country: | UK |
| Released: |
2004 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Opera, Classical |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Ouvertüre | 4:48 | |
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Atto I |
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| 2 | Cinque...Dieci... (Figaro, Susanna) | 2:50 | |
| 3 | Se Vuol Ballare (Figaro) | 2:28 | |
| 4 | La Vendetta (Bartolo) | 3:12 | |
| 5 | Non So Più Cosa Son (Cherubino) | 2:39 | |
| 6 | Giovani Liete (Coro) | 0:54 | |
| 7 | Non Più Andrai (Figaro) | 4:00 | |
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Atto II |
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| 8 | Porgi, Amor (Contessa) | 3:40 | |
| 9 | Voi Che Sapete (Cherubino) | 2:53 | |
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| 10 | Crudel! Perché Finora (Conte, Susanna) | 2:48 | |
| 11 | Verdò Mentr'lo Sospiro (Conte) | 3:01 | |
| 12 | E Susanna Non Vien! - Dove Sono (Contessa) | 6:26 | |
| 13 | Ecco La Marcia (Figaro, Susanna, Conte, Contessa, Coro) | 6:36 | |
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Atto IV |
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| 14 | In Capro E La Capretta (Marcellina) | 3:46 | |
| 15 | Tutto È Disposto...Aprite Un Po' Quegl'ochhi (Figaro) | 4:25 | |
| 16 | Giunse Alfin Il Momento - Deh, Vieni, Non Tardar (Susanna) | 3:58 | |
| 17 | Pian Piane...Pace, Pace, Mio Dolce Tesoro...Gente, Gente, All'Armi! (Cherubino, Contessa, Conte, Susanna, Figaro, Basilio, Antonio, Barbarina, Marcellina, Coro) | 16:59 |
- Baritone Vocals [Conte] – Thomas Hampson
- Baritone Vocals [Figaro] – Anton Scharinger
- Bass Vocals [Antonio] – Kevin Langan
- Bass Vocals [Bartolo] – Kurt Moll
- Chorus – Chorus Of De Nederlandse Opera
- Chorus Master – Winfried Maczewski
- Composed By – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Conductor – Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Engineer – Michael Brammann, Tobias Lehmann
- Liner Notes – Jean-Marie Gallais
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Cherubino] – Petra Lang
- Orchestra – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
- Producer – Helmut Mühle
- Soprano Vocals [Barbarina] – Isabel Rey
- Soprano Vocals [Contessa] – Charlotte Margiono
- Soprano Vocals [Marcellina] – Ann Murray
- Soprano Vocals [Susanna] – Barbara Bonney
- Tenor Vocals [Basilio] – Philip Langridge
