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Rare comic opera in authentic Baroque setting Dove è amore è gelosia was the first opera to be performed in the newly renovated theatre of Česk

What More Could You Ask For? For this paltry sum you can own twelve complete recordings of Verdi operas on DVD in mostly marvelous, recent (the oldest from 1998) productions. Look at the fine print on the picture of the back side of this huge box and you'll see. Consider: From Covent Garden: Simon Keenlyside in 'Macbeth' Christine Schäfer and Marcelo Álvarez in 'Rigoletto (the Rigoletto, Paolo Gavanelli, I'd never heard of but he's good) José Cura, Veronica Villarroel and Dmitri Hvorostovsky in 'Trovatore' Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja and Thomas Hampson in 'Traviata' Placído Domingo, Marina Poplavskaya, Ferruccio Furlanetto and Joseph Calleja in 'Simon Boccanegra' Bryn Terfel and Barbara Frittoli in 'Falstaff' From the Netherlands Opera: 'Sicilian Vespers' with singers I didn't know but who carry this difficult opera off admirably Robert Lloyd, Rolando Villazon, Amanda Roocroft in 'Don Carlo' From the... Cli...

Impressive production, marvellous singing Much like their recent production of Don Giovanni, Glyndebourne's 2012 production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro updates the work to the 1960s, finding it to be a period that acts as a good modern equivalent for the changing social attitudes that are to be found in Mozart and Beaumarchais' time. If it's not quite a perfect fit here, it works well enough for the purposes of Mozart's version of the work, which is less concerned with the social and political climate than the richness of human values that the work expresses. What is rather more important in Le nozze di Figaro then is how its characters are brought to life, and it's clear from the superb casting here and the fine singing, that this is the principal strength of Glyndebourne's new production. You can set the opera in just about any period then and get away with it, even with its references to 'droit de seigneur'. There have always been sleazy bosse...