Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro (Carl Böhm, Walter Berry, Reri Grist) [2003] [Re-Up]

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"… a fascinating glimpse into the history of the Salzburg Festival…The designer is Rudolf Heinrich, whose atmospheric sets cleverly suggest the different rooms in the Almaviva mansion within which Rennert, as ever, directs the work with an unforced feeling for the thoughts and actions of the Count’s scheming household and entirely without exaggeration…Berry’s then-reigning Figaro leads his eponymous opera with the confidence and exuberance of long experience in the part. His antagonist is the sturdy, impulsive Count of Wixell, obviously driven by testosterone. Both sing with absolute command of the stage and boast exemplary tone and technique with voices of properly contrasted timbre… Reri Grist’s Susanna is at once worldly-wise and quick-witted…Even better is Edith Mathis’s enchanting Cherubino…proving how much better is a soprano than a mezzo in the part. Her finely shaped account of her/his arias rightly bring down the house…The Vienna Philharmonic play with dedication, as they always did for their old chief. The video direction is alert, the mono sound excellent. Those who want a modern version have several excellent ones to choose from; this one is hors concours, a record of how Mozart was done in his home city in the middle years of the last century." - Alan Blyth, GRAMOPHONE

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