Figaro Archive

Lucia Popp was one astounding singer! Her musical interpretations were second to none, and she captured the feeling in the last Act of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. Lucia Popp made her debut at the Vienna State …

After “Don Giovanni”, “Così fan tutte” and “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” this is the fourth of DG’s series of seven Mozart operas conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and initiated by Rolando Villazón, Festspielhaus Baden Baden, …

For the 225th anniversary of Mozart’s death, La Scala Theater presented a new production of Le nozze di Figaro that had been entrusted to the extraordinary director Frederic Wake-Walker. He focuses the action of this …

The opera Le Nozze Di Figaro by Mozart is a great favorite of mine because it combines two aspects of the culture of the late 1700’s: On one hand, both the librettist and the composer …

The three Mozart operas on this DVD are my great favorites. This recording also serves as a way to remember the conductor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who died a few months ago. The title of this DVD …