Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro - Netrebko, D'Arcangelo, Harnoncourt - Salzburg 20062*DVD9 - NTSC - 16:9 - All Regions - Italian - LPCM, DTS 5.1 - 202min.
Subtitles: English/German/Italian/French/Spanish/Chinese
Release 2007
Figaro - Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Susanna - Anna Netrebko, Il Conte Di Almaviva - Bo Skovhus, La Contessa - Dorothea Röschmann, Cherubino - Christine Schäfer, Marcellina - Marie McLaughlin, Bartolo - Franz-Josef Selig, Basilio - Patrick Henckens, Don Curzio - Oliver Ringelhahn, Antonio - Florian Boesch, Barbarina - Eva Liebau, Cherub - Uli Kirsch
Wiener Philharmoniker, Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
This new excitingly original production of Mozart's most popular opera was the sensation of the 2006 Salzburg Festival. "What young director Claus Guth has made of Figaro - with Harnoncourt's active callaboration - is genius - The stellar cast performed with power and precision... This Figaro is as dangerous as the midday sun in one's eyes" (Le Monde). "A triumph for Mozart... Netrebko's golden radiance and dark velvet are ideal" (Salzburger Nachrichten). "Shattering, unforgettable" (The Guardian).
. . now we get a mostly very well-sung "Figaro" . . . Harnoncourt is clearly in complete agreement with Guth and Schmidt . . . Within this framework, one can only congratulate the singers. Bo Skovhus's Count is a sweaty, nervous, angry cheat, and he portrays it ideally, with big, gruff voice and movements . . . Ildebrando d'Arcangelo's "Figaro" . . . is superb . . . He's sexy and uses his beautiful voice to great dramatic effect. Anna Netrebko . . . is a darker-toned than usual Susanne and she's musical and glamorous . . . Christine Schäfer's Cherubino is simply terrific . . . The Vienna Philharmonic's playing is ravishing throughout and at such slow tempos Harnoncourt gets great detail from the players, particularly the winds. The High Definition picture is spectacular, as are the sonics.
Record Review / Robert Levine, International Record Review (London) / 01. July 2007
