DVD + Blu-Ray:
Le nozze di Figaro

Pichon’s “Mozart sound” unites with the “grimly entertaining” staging by Kušej: the “symbiosis is breathtaking" (Financial Times).

Le nozze di Figaro is Lorenzo Da Ponte’s and Mozart‘s first of their three jointly created operas about attempts at interpersonal relationships: a turbulent comedy with erotic entanglements, which was not a harmless comedy even in Mozart’s day. Director Martin Kušej moves the drama of love and jealousy to a mafia-like urban milieu where conflicts are fought out with pistols. Young French conductor Raphaël Pichon, “original sound expert” (Der Tagesspiegel) and for the first time on the podium of the Wiener Philharmoniker, leads a young ensemble of singers around clan boss Almaviva (“vocally flawlessly brilliant: Andrè Schuen”, Hamburger Abendblatt).

“Kušej’s staging is musical, Pichon’s conducting theatrical; the two work together to a degree that is far more rare than it should be. Every detail has been carefully thought through, and the symbiosis is breathtaking.” “Martin Kušej’s new Figaro is slick, dark and grimly entertaining.” (Financial Times)

“One will rarely, if ever, hear Le nozze di Figaro so well balanced on stage, with such a homogeneous ensemble of such class, with such a precise Mozart sound.” (Frankfurter Rundschau)

Genre Opera
Original title Le nozze di Figaro
Composer W. A. Mozart
Stage Director Martin Kušej
Soloist Krzysztof Bączyk, Sabine Devieilhe, Andrè Schuen, Adriana González, Lea Desandre, Kristina Hammarström
Choir Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Conductor Raphaël Pichon
Recording location Salzburg Festival, Haus für Mozart
Recording date August 2023
Production Company A production of Servus TV, Camera lucida and UNITEL in cooperation with Medici.tv, Mezzo, France TV, Wiener Philharmoniker and Salzburg Festival
Duration 178 mins