Listen Up! La Finta Giardiniera
The 18-year-old Mozart's delightful opera, full of freshness and youthful energy, receives a rare staging at the Royal Opera House, London. The plot revolves around a beautiful countess disguised as a gardener and features a veritable cavalcade of love-sick suitors. But Mozart's ability to contrast comic buffa scenes with moments of passion and tenderness lift the riotous action from the ridiculous to the sublime.
Introduced by Stephanie Hughes in conversation with the conductor, John Eliot Gardiner.
English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner