Le nozze di Figaro

Mozart Le nozze di Figaro opera to libretto by Lorenza da Ponte. Directed 2010 by Humbert Camerlo at the Opera Bastille. Stars Ludovic Tézier (Conte Almaviva), Barbara Frittoli (Contessa Almaviva), Ekaterina Siurina (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Karine Deshayes (Cherubino), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Robert Lloyd (Bartolo), Robin Leggate (Don Basilio), Antoine Normand (Don Curzio), Christian Tréguier (Antonio), Maria Virginia Savastano (Barbarina), Olivia Doray and Carol Garcia (Two Ladies). Features harpsichordist Denis Dubois. Philippe Jordan conducts the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus (Chorus Master Patrick Marie Aubert and Assistant Chorus Master Alessandro Di Stefano). Production and lighting design by Giorgio Strehler; set design by Ezio Frigerio; costume design by Ezio Frigerio and Franca Squarciapino; choreography by Jean Guizerix. Directed for TV by Don Kent; produced by Antoine Perset and François Duplat. Sung in Italian. Released 2012, has 5.0 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.