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Le nozze di Figaro, opera buffa in four acts K. 492, music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ; stage director, Claus Guth ; video director, Brian Large ; produced by Bernhard Fleischer ; 2006 Salzburg Festival ; from the House for Mozart ; a production of UNITEL and BFMI in co-production with ORF, BR and Classica in co-operation with the Salzburg Festival

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Le nozze di Figaro

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Recorded in performance July 22-26, 2006 at Salzburg, Haus für Mozart

music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ; stage director, Claus Guth ; video director, Brian Large ; produced by Bernhard Fleischer ; 2006 Salzburg Festival ; from the House for Mozart ; a production of UNITEL and BFMI in co-production with ORF, BR and Classica in co-operation with the Salzburg Festival

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opera buffa in four acts K. 492

Preparing for their wedding, the valet Figaro learns from the maid Susanna that their philandering employer, Count Almaviva, has designs on her. In her boudoir, the Countess laments her husband's waning love but plots to chasten him, encouraged by Figaro and Susanna. Susanna leads the Count on with promises of a rendezvous in the garden. Alone later that day, Susanna rhapsodizes on her love for Figaro, but he, overhearing, thinks she means the Count. Almaviva chases Cherubino away and sends his wife, who he thinks is Susanna, to an arbor, to which he follows. By now Figaro understands the joke and, joining the fun, makes exaggerated love to Susanna in her Countess disguise. The Count returns, seeing, or so he thinks, Figaro with his wife. Outraged, he calls everyone to witness his judgment, but now the real Countess appears and reveals the ruse. Grasping the truth at last, the Count begs her pardon

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