Le nozze di Figaro /
Preparing for their wedding, the valet Figaro learns from the maid Susanna that their philandering employer, Count Almaviva, has designs on her. In her boudoir, the Countess laments her husband's waning love but plots to chasten him, encouraged by Figaro and Susanna. Susanna leads the Count on...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Video DVD |
| Language: | Italian |
| Language Notes: | Sung in Italian; English, French, German, Spanish, or Chinese subtitles; English, French or German liner notes. |
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Hamburg :
Deutsche Grammophon Gessellschaft mbH,
[2007]
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| Series: | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Operas. 2006.
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| Summary: | Preparing for their wedding, the valet Figaro learns from the maid Susanna that their philandering employer, Count Almaviva, has designs on her. In her boudoir, the Countess laments her husband's waning love but plots to chasten him, encouraged by Figaro and Susanna. Susanna leads the Count on with promises of a rendezvous in the garden. Alone later that day, Susanna rhapsodizes on her love for Figaro, but he, overhearing, thinks she means the Count. Almaviva chases Cherubino away and sends his wife, who he thinks is Susanna, to an arbor, to which he follows. By now Figaro understands the joke and, joining the fun, makes exaggerated love to Susanna in her Countess disguise. The Count returns, seeing, or so he thinks, Figaro with his wife. Outraged, he calls everyone to witness his judgment, but now the real Countess appears and reveals the ruse. Grasping the truth at last, the Count begs her pardon. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (202 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; region code 0; NTSC; PCM stereo, 5.1. |
| Production Credits: | Harald Gericke, producer. |