Le Nozze di Figaro - The Met (1985)

• 93%
• 1985
• Carol Vaness
• Kathleen Battle
• Ruggero Raimondi

From the "James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at the Met" - DVD-box-set. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's landmark production of Mozart ' s most human comedy provides the perfect setting for this superb cast under James Levine's ebullient führung. The philandering and arrogant Count Almaviva (Thomas Allen) is no match for his wily dieners Figaro (Ruggero Raimondi), whose soon-to-be-wife Susanna (Kathleen Battle) is as max as she is charming. Add-in-one beautiful, disillusioned Countess (Carol Vaness) and one irrepressible, testosteron-laden teenage boy (Cherubino, played by Federica von Stade), and it ' s no wonder some critics say this is the perfect werk.