Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Hochzeit des Figaro BLU-RAY

 With an integrated digital opera guide: for the first time, viewers have the opportunity to read the plot as well as commentaries and explanations of the production on their television sets while the opera is playing. This innovative function is available on DVD and Blu-ray. - "Mozart's Figaro is now 229 years old, making it the oldest opera still popular worldwide, yet it seems eternally young. It will certainly endure as long as there is theater in the world." ( Director Sven-Eric Bechtolf) - Sven-Eric Bechtolf stages his Salzburg Figaro, which also concludes the DaPonte cycle, in a multi-roomed English manor house from the 1920s. Up to five rooms are visible at the same time on two levels, so that simultaneous actions and scenic polyphony are achieved. - Conductor Dan Ettinger impressed with his extraordinary musical sensitivity, "...the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra gave a radiant and slender sound, with striking phrasing." (Der Standard) - The soloists provide enthusiasm. "Luca Pisaroni is a first-class Count with a noble timbre and beautiful phrasing..." (Kurier), "the soft, alluring voice of Martina Janková and the seductive soprano of Annett Fritsch..." (The New York Times)

Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro is an unforgettable opera about love, longing and the primal power of unbridled passion. At the end of the Salzburg Festival's successful Mozart / Da Ponte cycle, director Sven-Eric Bechtolf stages this emotional tour de force in a stately English country house in the 1920s. The excellent Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra provides an extraordinary musical evening from Mozart's birthplace. Under the direction of Sven-Eric Bechtolf, this final production of the Salzburg Festival's Mozart / Da Ponte trilogy will be a unique evening of inspiring opera. The stage design, which extends over two levels and shows up to five rooms simultaneously, provides for fast-paced, parallel and multi-layered staging possibilities.

(Ultra HD Blu-ray)

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