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Mozart - Le Nozze Di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) Abbado, Vienna State Opera

	Mozart - Le Nozze Di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) Abbado, Vienna State Opera
	by Sony Sales Rank: 71414 Price: $54.98

What can I say about a video where just about everything goes right? Under Claudio Abbado's wise baton, the Vienna Philharmonic plays Mozart's Marriage to a gleeful Vienna State Opera crowd. The cast is full of star-studded singers, most notably Cheryl Studer and Ruggero Raimondi. The dynamics are well balanced, the articulations crisp, and the chorus is actually in balance with the singers and orchestra for the first time that I can remember in an opera video.<p>This is a great buy as Abbado and company make the vibrant Vienna State Opera House ring with the beautiful sounds that only such a house could possess. I saw this production of the Marriage of Figaro live myself at the opera house, and this video is almost a replica of the performance's quality.<p>What a video!! Thanks Amazon!!! *Viewer Reviews* This video was a big disappointment to me. The singers were good, but the rest is not good at all. I wanted this video mainly to see Ruggero Raimondi as Count Almaviva, but there were problems with his singing. He sounded very weak in this video probably because he is older in this than he is in the others that he is in. Heinz Zednik also wasn't a very good Basilio in this production. He seemed very strange, & not at all like he was as Monostatos in The Magic Flute. Most of the other characters were a little better, but there were lots of other problems in this video. Two really good arias are omitted, there is only one intermission, & to top it all off, there are no subtitles! Instead of subtitles there is a book with translations in English, German, & French that you have to stare at the whole time. I really wouldn't reccomend this video, but if you still want to pick this one, that is perfectly fine. Back To Top
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