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DVD : Mozart - Le Nozze di FigaroIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Roschmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Bo Skovhus, Christine Schafer directed by: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Claus Gouh  List Price: $39.98 Amazon.com's Price: $27.97 You Save: $12.01 (30%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0044007342459 Format: DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: Deutsche Grammophon Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon Number Of Discs: 2 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon Release Date: June 12, 2007 Running Time: 202 minutes Studio: Deutsche Grammophon Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Sales Rank: 28672 MPN: 000879909 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Abomination!!!If I had been in the audience at this performance I would have booed from the very beginning and throughout this horrible production. The singing was OK, the recits too slow and ponderous and WHAT was going on in the pit with all those pauses that added beats to pieces? The Eros dancer was unnecessary; the Count wa a simpering idiot and I couldn't decide if he was sweating or had allergies or a nose bleed. Bartolo in a wheel chair? COME ON! It became about picking up papers and how he would ... Read More Rating:  - Different, but interesting.This is a modern version of the Marriage of Figaro. It is quite different, but very interesting if you put aside what you've known about this opera and watch it as an opera you watch for the first time!? All the singers have wonderful voice. Rating:  - Brilliant and mesmerizingThis is an intense and unblinking look at human relationships and the social frames in which they are set. It is about our desperate determination to fit into such frames and to uphold them, against our deepest yearnings to transcend them. There are lovelier and funnier versions of Figaro, but I doubt that there is a more gripping exploration of the interplay between the social and the personal, public and private. The production takes many risks, but it is so daring in conception and ... Read More Rating: - Not your Grandma's FigaroThis is not your grandma's Figaro. At first I was surprised, then taken aback, then intrigued and then completely mesmerized. It's Figaro meets Psycho. The pacing is slower, more deliberate and the whole tone and atmosphere darker and more intense. And in the end, I think it works. The whole theme of this production is the maddening power of Eros (here portrayed by an extraneous character- a seductive non -speaking/singing young man dressed in school boy uniform with cherubic wings running around trying ... Read More Rating: - pitifulMozart would be ashamed. This is a desecration of a masterpiece. The entire cast and everyone associated should be ashamed. Browse for similar items by category:
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