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Performance on 3: The Marriage of Figaro

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Riccardo Muti conducts a cast which includes some of the leading Mozart singers of today in a production of the composer's comic masterpiece, recorded live at the Vienna Opera.

Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti
Acts 1 and 2

8.30 Twenty Minutes: The Figaro Letters
Graeme Fife imagines the contents of letters dropped and discovered in the darkling garden of the final act of Mozart's opera. The letters play a significant role as the characters discover their true selves.

8.50 Acts 3 and 4

Subversive opera: page 19

Contributors

Unknown:
Riccardo Muti
Unknown:
Vienna Opera.
Conductor:
Riccardo Muti
Unknown:
Graeme Fife
CountAlmaviva:
Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Countess Almaviva:
Melanie Diener (soprano)
Susanna:
Tatjana Lisnic (soprano)
Figaro:
Carlos Alvarez (bass)
Cherubino:
Angellka Kirchschlager (mezzo)
Marcellina:
Francesca Pedacl (soprano)
Source: Radio Times

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