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Le nozze di Figaro

BBC Radio 3
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Brian Wright introduces Erich Kleiber 's performance of Mozart's opera, recorded in 1955. (baritone) (bass) (soprano) (soprano) (bass) (soprano) (bass) (ten) (sop) (tenor) Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna PO Acts 1 and 2
3.55 Interval Talk
4.00 Acts 3 and 4

Contributors

Introduces:
Brian Wright
Unknown:
Erich Kleiber
Count Almaviva:
Alfred Poell
Figaro, his valet:
Cesare Siepi
Countess Almaviva:
Lisa Della Casa
Susanna, her maid:
Hilde Gueden
Bartolo:
Fernando Corena
Marcellina:
Hildi Rossi-Majdan
Cherubino, a page:
Suzanne Danco
Antonio, a gardener:
Harald Proglhof
Curzio, counsellor at law:
Hugo Meyer-Welfing
Barbarina, Antonio's niece:
Anny Felbermayer
Basilio, a music-master:
Murray Dickie
Source: Radio Times

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