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Marriage Of Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), James Levine (Conductor), The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (Orchestra), Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Sinfonia
2 1. Duettino: Cinque...Dieci...Venti...Trenta... / Recitativo: Cosa Stai Misurando'
3 2. Duettino: Se A Caso Madama La Notte Ti Chiama / Recitativo: Or Bene, Ascolta, E Taci
4 3. Cavatina: Se Vuol Ballare, Signor Contino / Recitativo: Ed Aspettaste Il Giorno
5 4. Aria: La Vendetta, Oh, La Vendetta / Recitativo: Tutto Ancor Non Ho Perso
6 5. Duettino: Via, Resti Servita, Madama Brillante / Recitativo: Va La, Vecchia Pedante
7 6. Aria: Non So Piu Cosa Son, Sosa Faccio... / Recitativo: Ah, Son Perduto!
8 7. Terzetto: Cosa Sento! Tosto Andate / Recitativo: Basilio, In Traccia Tosto Di Figaro
9 8. Coro: Giovani Liete, Fiori Spargete / Recitativo: Cos'e Questa Commedia?
10 9. Coro: Giovani Liete, Fiori Spargete / Recitativo: Evviva!...E Voi Non Applaudite?
11 10. Aria: Non Piu Andrai, Farfallone Amoroso
12 11. Cavatina: Porgi, Amor, Qualche Ristoro / Recitativo: Vieni, Cara Susanna / Recitativo: Quanto...
13 12. Arietta: Voi Che Sapete Che Cosa E Amor / Recitativo: Bravo! Che Bella Voce!

Disc: 2

1 13. Aria: Venite...Inginocchiatevi... / Recitativo: Quante Buffonerie! / Che Novita! Non Fu Mai...
2 14. Terzetto: Susanna, Or Via, Sortite / Recitativo: Dunque, Voi Non Aprite?
3 15. Duettino: Aprite, Presto, Aprite / Recitativo: O Guarda Il Demonietto! / Tutto E Come Io...
4 16. Finale: Esci, Omai, Garzon Malnato / Signore! Cos'e Quel Stupore? / Signori, Di Fuori Son Gia...
5 Recitativo: Che Imbarazzo E Mai Questo! / Via, Fatti Core
6 17. Duettino: Crudel! Perche Finora Farmi Languir Cosi? / Recitativo: E Perche Fosti Meco...
7 18. Recitativo Ed Aria / Recitativo: Hai Gia Vinta La Causa! / Aria: Vedro Mentr'io Sospiro...
8 19. Sestetto: Riconosci In Questo Amplesso / Eccovi, O Caro Amico / Andiamo, Andiam, Bel Paggio
9 20. Recitativo Ed Aria / Recitativo: E Susanna Non Vien! / Aria: Dove Sono I Bei Momenti...
10 21. Duettino: (Sull'aria...)- Che Soave Zeffiretto / Recitativo: Piegato I Il Foglio

Disc: 3

1 22. Coro: Ricevete, O Padroncina / Recitativo: Queste Sono, Madama, Le Ragazze Del Loco / Eh...
2 23. Finale: Ecco La Marcia...Andiamo / La Marcia / Amanti Costanti, Seguaci D'onor
3 24. Cavatina: L'ho Perduta, Me Meschina / Recitativo: Barbarina, Cos'hai? / Madre.- Figlio...
4 25. Aria: Il Capro E La Capretta / Recitativo: Nel Padiglione A Manca / Ha I Diavoli Nel Corpo
5 26. Aria: In Quegli Anni In Cui Val Poco
6 27. Recitativo Ed Aria / Recitativo: Tutto E Disposto / Aria: Aprite Un Po' Quegli Occhi...
7 28. Recitativo Ed Aria / Recitativo: 'Giunse Alfin Il Momento / Aria: Deh Vieni, Non Tardar...
8 29. Finale: Pian Pianin Le Andro Piu Presso / Ecco Qui La Mia Susanna / Tutto E Tranquillo E...
9 Scena Ultima: Gente, Gente, All'armi, All'armi

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CD-BOX: Mozart / Levine,Le Nozze Di Figaro: CARDBOARD BOX + BOOKLET

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 0.4 x 4.9 inches; 4 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Deutsche Grammophon
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Deutsche Grammophon
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000001GEI
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 63 ratings

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Customers praise the recording's beautiful music, with one noting the splendid orchestra and chorus. The cast features an impeccable ensemble of singers, and one review highlights how the cast list exemplifies voice classification. Customers describe the recording as a modern classic, with one review specifically mentioning its vividly drawn portraits.

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11 customers mention "Music quality"11 positive0 negative

Customers praise the beautiful music and magnificent ear for fine voices in this recording, with Kiri's beautiful singing and excellent recorded sound receiving particular attention.

"...; or "in the mask"... In spite of this, the excellent recorded sound and the capable conducting make this a solid 4.5 stars." Read more

"This is such great music I almost cried when it was over. Leaves you wanting more." Read more

"...Kiri sings beautifully, not effected or crooning, like another famous diva who is all over the place these days (she knows who she is), even though..." Read more

"I love this opera! So much beautiful music and the opera singers are all top notch! Am listening to it over and over!" Read more

6 customers mention "Cast"6 positive0 negative

Customers praise the impeccable cast of singers in this opera, with one customer noting that the principal roles are well-sung throughout, and another mentioning that the cast list reads like a textbook of voice classification.

"...The recording you sent is delightful! James Levine is a very famous conductor of opera and the singers are also very very famous and good...." Read more

"...The principal roles are really well sung throughout, and the cast list reads like a textbook of voice classification: the lyric soprano of Kiri Te..." Read more

"...He is a wonderful title character, possessing a dark sexy bass voice with the agility to manage the more intricate and rapid patter in the role...." Read more

"I love this opera! So much beautiful music and the opera singers are all top notch! Am listening to it over and over!" Read more

6 customers mention "Quality"6 positive0 negative

Customers praise the CD's excellent sound quality and production.

"...famous conductor of opera and the singers are also very very famous and good. -Mike" Read more

"...Again, Levine tames him and Hampson delivers an admirable cad, singing beautifully, this was before he launched into Wagner and heavier Verdi..." Read more

"...I have already listened to it multiple times. The CD quality is excellent." Read more

"An especially good production. A must for someone before seeing this opera for the first time...." Read more

6 customers mention "Recording quality"6 positive0 negative

Customers praise the recording quality of this album.

"...Here is our son's response: I love the recording you sent...." Read more

"...This Cherubino for Levine is the best recording I've heard of hers, barring a recent Berlioz Les nuits d'été on the Naïve label, which astonishes as..." Read more

"This is a wonderful recording of Marriage of Figaro with an outstanding cast. But unfortunately, it is a used CD and it skips in several places." Read more

"...I just reordered because I lost two CD's. This is truly a great recording." Read more

4 customers mention "Sex scenes"4 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the sex scenes in this version, describing it as a beautiful and modern classic with vividly drawn portraits.

"...rather like a Jane Austen novel with all those subsidiary and vividly drawn portraits, that I have overcome my ossified biases and have allowed..." Read more

"...This is Mozart at his finest. The music is wonderful, beautiful. I have already listened to it multiple times. The CD quality is excellent." Read more

"This is an old classic but modern enough to have excellent sound. I just reordered because I lost two CD's. This is truly a great recording." Read more

"Beautiful version!..." Read more

3 customers mention "Performance quality"3 positive0 negative

Customers praise the performance quality of the recording, with one noting its beautiful execution and another appreciating the capable conducting.

"...;... In spite of this, the excellent recorded sound and the capable conducting make this a solid 4.5 stars." Read more

"...I am not a fan of soubrettes. But she is surprisingly effective and authentically charming and minxish, not irritating at all, perhaps a bit..." Read more

"...A beautiful performance of a wonderful opera" Read more

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  • Paul & Betty M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Recording of a well loved Opera
    Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2011
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    For a birthday present, our son Mike, who is in a graduate level school of music, asked us to choose from several possible recordings. We choose this CD from the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by James Levine, since for years we have enjoyed the excellent radio broadcasts of the Metropolitan under the leadership of Mr. Levine. Here is our son's response:

    I love the recording you sent. Even though I knew it would be the Marriage of Figaro, I thought it would be fun to let you choose. The recording you sent is delightful! James Levine is a very famous conductor of opera and the singers are also very very famous and good.
    -Mike
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  • Sven Edward
    5.0 out of 5 stars A close second to Solti
    Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2016
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    It's hard to find fault with this recording, except perhaps the chorus. The principal roles are really well sung throughout, and the cast list reads like a textbook of voice classification: the lyric soprano of Kiri Te Kanawa against the soubrette of Dawn Upshaw, Hampson's lyric baritone against the bass-baritone of of Furlanetto. I'd have no reservations about recommending this as your only recording of Figaro, but I still have to give top choice to Solti's recording. Kiri Te Kanawa is in better voice for Solti (although some might enjoy her more "mature" sounding Countess for Levine), and as much as I love Anne Sophie von Otter, Frederica von Stade is just the most exciting (and convincing) Cherubino on record. Dawn Upshaw is certainly capable of making some lovely vocal tone—why she so often chooses not to is a mystery. If only she weren't so concerned about keeping the sound "forward" or "in the mask"... In spite of this, the excellent recorded sound and the capable conducting make this a solid 4.5 stars.
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  • DoubleVision
    5.0 out of 5 stars Finally bought it - as good as I had hoped
    Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2014
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    It's been on my wishlist for years. The price dropped, the money was there, and now it's mine. Yay! I first became interested in this particular opera because so much of it was in the movie "Amadeus." The opening song of the film and the entire section about Mozart writing and conducting "The Marriage of Figaro" were teasers -- the CD set is all that and a bag of chips. Seriously, there are parts of the opera I play over and over like most of my albums of other kinds of music. This is the only opera I own. I am somewhat curious about some other operas now.
    I happened to be playing the 3rd CD as background music - which includes the song that has been described as one of two songs that are Mozart's best - when my 4 month old grandson came to my house to meet me. I wasn't playing it for him, but after some friendly cooing and gurgling, he paused and turned his ear to the speaker as all the sopranos started doing what sopranos do in an opera. He was totally focused on the music. Later we played the guitar for him and he was excited about that, too. Nobody told him "this is Mozart, pay attention", it was hard-wired. I'd say 50% of the awesomeness is my totally amazing grandson, but 50% goes to Mozart and "The Marriage of Figaro."
    The set also includes a complete libretto in 4 languages so I can hear the Italian words they are singing and read the English translation on the same page. Most of the time I just listen to it. There are also several very interesting essays by various music experts in the book.
    Definitely worth the money.
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  • Jonathan Porter doesn't work at all. It won't even hardly stick to the car and just pulls right off. No pulling power at all. Even tried pouring boiling water over dent and it won't even hardly stick. I wouldn't even truth it to carry glass.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Music and recording in the world.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2022
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    This is such great music I almost cried when it
    was over. Leaves you wanting more.
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  • John K Thomas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good discs
    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2023
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    Ripped with good CRCs and confirmation from dBpowerAMP AccurateRip
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  • pekinman
    4.0 out of 5 stars Irresistible. Levine is a fine Mozartian.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2015
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    I resisted this recording of Le nozze di Figaro for many years. First of all, James Levine's ubiquity on the American opera scene was something I had begun to take for granted. I heard his work regularly on the late lamented Texaco broadcasts for several decades and you would have thought he was the only conductor in America at the time. And, as a Wagnerian, I was often disappointed by his work in that field, at least in New York; his Wagner at Bayreuth was something else again, marvelous! I have always admired Levine's Mozart work, he brings these old masterpieces to life like few others can do. There is nothing precious or preserved in aspic about this Figaro and the DG sound is surprisingly warm and intimate without losing the ambiance of a stage setting, which in a studio recording is quite an accomplishment.
    The orchestra and chorus are splendid as well.

    No, what really held me back from purchasing this set is much of the casting. Only Ferruccio Furlanetto (Figaro) and Tatiana Troyanos (Marcellina) are singers that I have long loved. He is a wonderful title character, possessing a dark sexy bass voice with the agility to manage the more intricate and rapid patter in the role. Trojanos is a fabulous Marcellina. For once this vital character gets her aria all about goats and ewes, lamenting the lot of woman and so on. She does it with wise humor, a fruity tone, but fully capable of pulling this difficult little aria off with coloratura skills not normally associated with her large, oftentimes Wagnerian, sized voice. A treasurable recording of that wonderful mezzo-soprano nearing the end of her career.

    Kiri. Always a problem. When I was young and full of angst, 35 years ago, I bought every recording she made, within the categories of music I liked, her voice was like balm to me. I wore out her lp of Strauss's Four Last Songs with the ever mediocre Andrew Davis conducting. I loved Te Kanawa's voice so much Mickey Mouse could have been conducting for all I cared. I traveled far to see her live in San Francisco, which was a turning point in my adoration because her Marschallin was SO bland and boring I was stunned with disappointment. The voice was gorgeous but she had succumbed to her pretty pretty tendencies and didn't bother to act for beans. This was especially irksome as she was in the company of Brigitte Fassbaender's Oktavian and Kurt Moll's Ochs! I chilled on Kiri at that point and began to look elsewhere to satisfy my growing interest in characterization then being equal to vocal beauty.

    Then the H.I.P. movement in classical music began; historically informed practices. Gut strings, no vibrato, flageolets instead of flutes, that sort of thing. Gardiner and Jacobs began making lovely Mozart sets, and I was off on another tack. This set by James Levine is old school; big orchestra, big chorus, big sound, big voices, just like more recent 'old times'. I have since returned to the old school stable in Mozart performance and found myself enjoying this recording enormously in within that context.

    Kiri sings beautifully, not effected or crooning, like another famous diva who is all over the place these days (she knows who she is), even though her vibrato has widened and she tends to want to wallow and let the tempo cruise along slower and slower in Porgi Amor, but Levine keeps her in line. He has to be one of the greatest singers' conductors who ever lived! He has a magnificent ear for fine voices and his recordings always sport the most lovely singers of them all. Kiri is not as great here as she was for Solti on his famous and beautiful Figaro from the early 1981, but she does not sound too matronly or anything like that.

    Her husband, the sleazy Count Almaviva, is portrayed by Thomas Hampson, a singer who raises my ire more often than not; it's his 'tude. His ego screams through the microphones as a rule. Again, Levine tames him and Hampson delivers an admirable cad, singing beautifully, this was before he launched into Wagner and heavier Verdi roles.

    Dawn Upshaw. Here's another singer I assiduously avoided on record. Years of endless broadcasts of her recording of Arvo Pärt's depressing 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' caused me to develop a psychological tick against this singer. And her pretty sweet little soprano conjured up visions of Rhoda Penmark's pursed little mouth in The Bad Seed. Upshaw's Susannah was the biggest prejudicial hurdle I had to overcome to buy this set. I am not a fan of soubrettes. But she is surprisingly effective and authentically charming and minxish, not irritating at all, perhaps a bit faceless compared to the really great Susannahs, however. Levine encourages her to sing without all her little effects, same thing he did for Hampson and Te Kanawa.

    Anne Sofie von Otter's Cherubino is lovely. She was always Lovely, and bland as a rule. This great Swedish mezzo-soprano has made so many recordings of purely vocal excellence as to defy all negative criticism. But she never rang my bells, not even in Strauss. I appreciate immaculate vocalism but von Otter often resorts to fake cutesiness to convey character. Her Hänsel for Jeffrey Tate (EMI) was so maudlin I couldn't bear to listen to it and gave the set away. It was otherwise a fine recording.
    This Cherubino for Levine is the best recording I've heard of hers, barring a recent Berlioz Les nuits d'été on the Naïve label, which astonishes as she is approaching 60 years!

    Te Kanawa, Hampson, Upshaw and von Otter make a fine team however, and joined by the classic singing of Furlanetto and Troyanos and a fine group of comprimarios, so important in this opera, rather like a Jane Austen novel with all those subsidiary and vividly drawn portraits, that I have overcome my ossified biases and have allowed myself to own one of the very best Figaros available on record. I can't think of a finer American Figaro for our opera-going public. Snap it up!

    Thank you, Maestro Levine! This was your doing!
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  • ivar critch
    5.0 out of 5 stars Top Customer Service
    Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2023
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    My order came with two defective disks. I emailed customer service and got a prompt reply: keep what I was sent and they would attempt to replace with another. Within a week I had another set of Le Nozze Di Figaro in perfect condition. Happy Day
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  • Caren E. Waters
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful version!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2019
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    I love this opera! So much beautiful music and the opera singers are all top notch! Am listening to it over and over!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars CD arrived on time and in good condition
    Reviewed in Canada on July 13, 2023
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    CD arrived on time and in good condition
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