Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro Act I-II | Freni, Te Kenawa, Prey, Fischer-Dieskau - Bohm (1976)

Opera Title: Le nozze di Figaro
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Librettist: Lorenzo da Ponte
Premiere: 1 May 1786, Vienna (Burgtheater)
Language: Italian
Translation(s): English & Italian subtitles (Click on CC)
Synopsis: https://www.opera-arias.com/mozart/le-nozze-di-figaro/synopsis/
Le nozze di Figaro Act III-IV: https://rumble.com/v4l82nf-mozart-le-nozze-di-figaro-act-iii-iv-freni-te-kenawa-prey-fischer-dieskau-b.html

Le nozze di Figaro (English: The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"), which was first performed in 1784.

It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity. The opera is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas.

Cast & Crew:
Hermann Prey as Figaro
Mirella Freni as Sussana
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Il Conte di Almaviva
Kiri Te Kanawa as La Contessa di Almaviva
Maria Ewing as Cherubino
Paolo Montarsolo as Bartolo
Heather Begg as Marcellina
John van Kesteren as Basilio
Hans Kraemmer as Antonio
Janet Perry as Barbarina
Willy Caron as Don Curzio

Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor: Karl Böhm
Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Producer: Fritz Buttenstedt
Cinematography: Ernst Wild
Costume Design: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle