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This page lists all recordings of Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (The Marriage of Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91).
With the subtitle 'La folle giornata' ('The Day of Madness'), the opera was composed in 1786.
It was the first of the 'da Ponte' operas with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on a satirical stage play by Pierre Beaumarchais.
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
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Simon Keenlyside (Count), Véronique Gens (Countess), Patrizia Ciofi (Susanna), Lorenzo Regazzo (Figaro), Angelika Kirchschlager (Cherubino), Marie McLaughlin (Marcellina)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Concerto Köln, René Jacobs
René Jacobs always brings new ideas to the operas he conducts, and even to a work as familiar as Figaro he adds something of his own. First of all he offers an orchestral balance quite unlike... — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
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Erwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)
…so accomplished a cast, in which Gerald Finley's Count, Miah Persson's Susanna and Rinat Shaham's Cherubino stand out as ideal. — More…
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Gerald Finley (Figaro), Alison Hagley (Susanna), Andreas Schmidt (Count), Renée Fleming (Countess), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Cherubino)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor) & Stephen Medcalf (director)
Gerald Finley and Alison Hagley are well-matched as the servant couple and Renee Fleming's creamy Countess is a joy. — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
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Erwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)
…so accomplished a cast, in which Gerald Finley's Count, Miah Persson's Susanna and Rinat Shaham's Cherubino stand out as ideal. — More…
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If Jacobs is hardly the first modern conductor to present the opera in its 'original colours', his Don Giovanni is among the liveliest and most enjoyable on offer. It is certainly one of the... — More…
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Due for release on 26th Oct 2018
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Thomas Hampson (Conte), Sonya Yoncheva (Contessa), Angela Brower (Cherubino), Christiane Karg (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Maurizio Muraro (Bartolo), Anne Sofie von Otter (Marcellina), Rolando Villazón (Basilio)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Hampson is a rock-steady Count…Yoncheva gives the Countess some real passion…Pisaroni’s Figaro is confident and spirited…Karg as Susanna is agile…Villazón’s Basilio is characteristically vivid — More…
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$33.75
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The Unprecedented Expansion of Music in the Age of Enlightenment
Freiburger Barockorchester, Concerto Köln, René Jacobs, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe Rousset, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Richard Egarr, Academy of Ancient Music, English Concert, Andrew Manze
Harmonia Mundi have somehow contrived to telescope that most industriously inventive of musical centuries into this 30CD set, by dint of ingenious thematic programming which apportions discs... — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail & Le nozze di Figaro
Miah Persson (Fiordiligi), Anke Vondung (Dorabella), Ainhoa Garmendia (Despina), Topi Lehtipuu (Ferrando), Luca Pisaroni (Guglielmo), Nicolas Rivenq (Don Alfonso), Sally Matthews (Konstanze), Edgaras Montvidas (Belmonte), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin), Mari Eriksmoen (Blonde), Brenden Gunnell (Pedrillo) &...
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Erich Kunz (Figaro), Irmgard Seefried (Susanna), Paul Schöffler (Count), Lisa Della Casa (Countess), Sena Jurinac (Cherubino), Oskar Czerwenka (Bartolo), Rosette Anday (Marcellina), Murray Dickie (Basilio), Anny Felbermayer (Barbarina), Walter Berry (Antonio)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,...
The singers here are vocally pre-eminent and the performance is alert, theatrically motivated and (at times) moving…Despite Böhm’s efforts there is sometimes a struggle between the old portentous... — More…
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$20.25
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New, Mozart: The Da Ponte Operas
Erwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio), Mariusz Kwiecien (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Commendatore),...