Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro on BBC radio 3
Recorded earlier this year at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Saturday 26 May 2012 at 18:00 UK time on BBC radio 3
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Anna Bonitatibus as Cherubino. photocredit Bill Cooper
Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838)
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo stars as Figaro, Lucas Meachem as Count Almaviva and Aleksandra Kurzak as Susanna in Mozart’s great comic opera. Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera.
When Count Almaviva takes an over-eager interest in his cunning manservant’s wife-to-be, he sets off an elaborate train of events and finds himself thwarted many times. But after a day of madness and a night of confusion, everything ends more or less happily.
Figaro…..Ildebrando D’ Arcangelo (Bass)
Susanna…..Aleksandra Kurzak (Soprano)
Bartolo…..Carlo Lepore (Bass)
Marcellina…..Ann Murray (Mezzo-Soprano)
Cherubino…..Anna Bonitatibus (Mezzo-Soprano)
Count Almaviva…..Lucas Meachem (Baritone)
Basilio…..Bonaventura Bottone (Tenor)
Antonio…..Jeremy White (Bass)
Don Curzio…..Harry Nicoll (Tenor)
Barbarina…..Susana Gaspar (Soprano)
Countess Almaviva…..Kate Royal (Soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conductor Antonio Pappano
Gallery of fabulous photos from Bill Cooper
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Review from Intermezzo
Review from Opera Today
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