Description
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Le Nozze Di Figaro /
- Aspect Ratio : 16:9
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 5.39 x 0.67 x 7.6 inches; 4.55 Ounces
- Audio Description: : English, German, French
- Director : Don Kent
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Classical
- Actors : Ekaterina Siurina, Karine Deshayes, Luca Pisaroni, Ludovic T zier, Ludovic Tézier
- Dubbed: : None
- Subtitles: : Italian, English, French, German, Spanish
- Producers : Antoine Perset, François Duplat
- Studio : Bel Air Classiques
- Number of discs : 2
Filmed at the Paris Opera with a cast including the great Mozart figures of our time, Giorgio Stroller's legendary production is made available for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray. In 2010, thirty-seven long years after it's premiere, the Stroller Nozze met with a fresh triumph with a whole new generation of performers at the height of their powers.
The Marriage of Figaro, 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".