Mozart Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) opera to libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Directed 2010 by Neil Armfield (with Associate Director Roger Press) at the Sydney Opera House. Stars Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Figaro), Taryn Feibig (Susanna), Warwick Fyfe (Dr. Bartolo), Jacqueline Dark (Marcellina), Sian Pendry (Cherubino), Peter Coleman-Wright (Count Almaviva), Kanen Breen (Don Basilio), Rachelle Durkin (Countess Almaviva), Clifford Plumpton (Antonio), Claire Lyon (Barbarina), as well as Katherine Wiles and Margaret Plummer (Bridesmaids). Patrick Summers conducts the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra (Concertmaster Aubrey Murphy) and the Opera Australia Chorus (Chorus Master Michael Black with Assistant Anthony Hunt). Designs by Dale Ferguson; lighting by Rory Dempster. Directed for TV by Cameran Kirkpatrick. Although titled in English, this is sung in Italian. Released 2011, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA
We have, of course, a number of HDVDs of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro listed on the Alphalist under Nozze.