Mozart: Da Ponte Operas
- Recorded at the “Haus für Mozart” during the Salzburg Festival 2006-09
This 6 – DVD Box Set brings together all three Da Ponte Operas: Così fan tutte ∙ Don Giovanni ∙ Le nozze di Figaro live from the Salzburg Festivals 2006 – 2009 with an extraordinary cast that includes:
Anna Netrebko and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo ∙ Patricia Petibon and Bo Skovhus ∙ Christopher Maltman and Erwin Schrott.
The Wiener Philharmoniker are conducted by Adam Fischer, Bertrand de Billy, Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Mozart:
- Così fan tutte, K588
Miah Persson (Fiordiligi), Isabel Leonard (Dorabella), Topi Lehtipuu (Ferrando), Florian Boesch (Guglielmo), Bo Skovhus (Don Alfonso), Patricia Petibon (Despina)
Adam Fischer, conducting
- Don Giovanni, K527
Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Annette Dasch (Donna Anna), Matthew Polenzani (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Ekaterina Siurina (Zerlina), Anatoly Kocherga (Il Commendatore), Alex Esposito (Masetto)
Bertrand de Billy, conductor
- Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (Figaro), Anna Netrebko (Susanna), Bo Skovhus (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Christine Schäfer (Cherubino), Marie McLaughlin (Marcellina), Franz-Josef Selig (Bartolo), Patrick Henckens (Basilio), Oliver Ringelhahn (Curzio), Florian Boesch (Antonio), Eva Liebau (Barbarina)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
Three different conductors are seen directing the Wiener Philharmoniker, with Claus Guth (staging)
Director Claus Guth’s productions of the Mozart trilogy consolidates Guth’s international reputation as one of the most sought-after stage directors of our time. Among his other major successes are “Der fliegende Holländer” in Bayreuth, and “Luisa Miller” at the Bavarian State Opera.
Here is a video of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Hosted in the intimate surroundings of the Haus für Mozart, with a dynamic cast and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Adam Fischer
And here brief sections from Wolfgang A. Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”
Tags: Mozart, Operas. Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, Nozze di Figaro