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Le nozze di Figaro /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
Corporate Authors: Royal Opera House (London, England), Opus Arte (Firm)
Other Authors: Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838, Schrott, Erwin, Persson, Miah, Finley, Gerald, 1960-, Röschmann, Dorothea, Shaham, Rinat, Veira, Jonathan, Araya, Graciela, Langridge, Philip, 1939-2010, Pappano, Antonio, 1959-, McVicar, David, McCallin, Tanya, Constable, Paule, Haswell, Jonathan, Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799
Format: Video
Language:Italian
Language Notes:Sung in Italian; subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
Published: Waldron, England : Opus Arte, ©2008.
Series:Opera in video.
Subjects:
Operas.
Webcast
Online media.
Internet videos.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 streaming video (202 min.))
Production Credits:Stage director, David McVicar; set and costume design, Tanya McCallin; lighting, Paule Constable; movement director, Leah Hausman; television director, Jonathan Haswell.