Mozart La finta giardiniera opera to a libretto possibly by Giuseppe Petrosellini. Directed 2014 by David Lescot at the Opéra de Lille. Stars Carlo Allemano (Don Anchise, the Podestà), Erin Morley (Violante, disguised as Sandrina), Enea Scala (Comte Belfiore), Marie-Adeline Henry (Arminda), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Ramiro), Maria V. Savastano (Serpetta), and Nikolay Borchev (Roberto, disguised as Nardo). Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Le Concert d'Astrée (Chorus Master Philippe Grisvard). Atsushi Sakaï was Assistant to the Music Director. Set designs by Alwyne de Dardel; costumes by Sylvette Dequest; lighting by Paul Beaureilles. Directed for TV by Jean-Pierre Loisil. Sung in Italian. Released 2009, disc has 5.1 dts-HD sound. Grade: NA
Richard Wigmore, writing in the September 2015 Gramophone (page 93) praises all the singers, who, Wigmore states, "all seem [to be] natural stage animals." He concludes there's "plenty to savor in this spare, elegant, and emotionally truthful staging of an opera that already hints at the future composer of Figaro [Mozart was 18 when he wrote his Finta] ."
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