Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492

Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (Count Almaviva), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess Almaviva), Anna Prohaska (Susanna), Lauri Vasar (Figaro) & Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino)

Staatsoper Berlin, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) & Jürgen Flimm & Bettina Hartmann (stage directors)

The brouhaha is entertaining in its way, but the essential distinction between the classes is pretty well ignored…The film direction by Hannes Rossacher is good, a particularly moving instance... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 More…

Release Date: 9th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: ACC10366
Label: Accentus Music

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Winner - Video Performance

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492

Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (Count Almaviva), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess Almaviva), Anna Prohaska (Susanna), Lauri Vasar (Figaro) & Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino)
Staatsoper Berlin
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) & Jürgen Flimm & Bettina Hartmann (stage directors)

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Magdalena Gut, set design

Ursula Kudrna, costume design

Olaf Freese, light design

Detlef Giese, dramaturgy

“Nothing is harder to put on stage than lightness. And humor is the sharpest weapon of the desperate. That is why it is an obligation, indeed a must, to enjoy this Figaro by Jürgen Flimm at the Staatsoper to the fullest.“ (ARD Radio) This production of “Le nozze di Figaro” is directed by the former artistic director of the Staatsoper Berlin, Jürgen Flimm, who characterizes it as follows: “Figaro is by far the best work ever devised for the stage; it combines everything that moves the human heart and mind – forlorn hope, pleasantry, satire, profound significance, also much ado about nothing and vain amours.” This production with a star-studded ensemble of soloists was Flimm’s third staging of this musical masterpiece, and this time he places the plot in Count Almaviva‘s summer residence – a place where the count spent his childhood, a place full of memories where time has left its marks. It is in this hot atmosphere of summer that the great day unfolds: holidays, sun, sea, pretty women take a fancy to pretty men and pretty men take a fancy to pretty women. A midsummer night‘s dream full of tangled paths and futile longing where the women pull the strings of intrigue with their gentle hands.

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January 2019

The brouhaha is entertaining in its way, but the essential distinction between the classes is pretty well ignored…The film direction by Hannes Rossacher is good, a particularly moving instance being when the camera focuses on each happy couple in turn during the ensemble that follows the Countess’s ‘Più dolce io sono’…There are no weak links in the cast, and Gustavo Dudamel keeps things moving along nicely.

May 2019

Vocal performances are medium-scale with the exception of Ildebrando D’Arcangelo’s mature Latin lover Count – by far the most vivid portrayal in the show…Röschmann’s Countess is fluent and self-aware, her arias finely shaped…In an unfailingly skilful piece of vocal acting, Marianne Crebassa offers a neatly sung, pretty-boy Cherubino. Dudamel generally maintains convincing tempos and sensitive balance, though his efficient modern-instrument performance never really lifts off.

International Classical Music Awards 2019

With Jürgen Flimm’s inventive and lively staging in Almaviva’s summer residence, as well as an excellent cast, this is an outstanding performance of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, consistently conveying a very fresh and delightful humour. Despite rather measured speeds, Gustavo Dudamel’s inspired conducting carries all the sparkle of the music.

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