LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Opera buffa in four acts in Italian
Liberetto: Lorenzo de Ponte, after Beaumarchais.
Premièr at Burgtheater, Vienna – 1 May 1786
22† August 1963
Glyndebourne Opera, Glyndebourne                                                                                

GLYNDEBOURNE OPERA FESTIVAL
Special television performance for BBC before an invited audience 

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Festival Chorus

 Conductor: Silvio Varviso
Chorus master: Myer Fredman
Stage director: Carl Ebert (1955)
Revival producer: Peter Ebert
Scene and costumes: Oliver Messel
Choreographer: Robert Harrold

Count Almaviva MICHAEL ROUX baritone
Figaro his valet HEINZ BLAKENBURG baritone
Doctor Bartolo CARLO CAVA bass
Don Basilio a music-master HUGUES CUENOD tenor
Cherubino a page EDITH MATHIS soprano
Antonio a gardener DERICK DAVIES bass
Don Curizo counsellor at law JOHN KENTISH tenor
Countess Almaviva LEYLA GENCER soprano
Susanna her personal maid LILIANE BERTON soprano
Marcellina a duenna ROSA LANGHEZZA soprano
Barbarina Antonio’s niece MARIA ZERI soprano
Bridesmaid AUDREY ATTWOOD

Harpsichord Martin Iseppe

Time: Eighteenth Century
Place: The Count’s chateau of Aguas Frescas, near Seville

† Recording date 

[Recorded on 22 August and broadcasted on 29 August by BBC sent on Eurovision and also broadcast in Germany and Ireland]

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1963.08.29
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