Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro DVD (The Royal Opera)David McVicars resonant production of Le nozze di Figaro is set in 1830s post revolution France, where the inexorable unravelling of an old order has produced acute feelings of loss. In the relationship between Gerald Finleys suave Count and Dorothea Rschmanns passionately dignified Countess, which lies at the tragic heart of the opera, the sexy ease between a feisty Figaro (Erwin Schrott) and a sassy Susanna (Miah Persson) is starkly absent. The

Shelley: Loré Lixenbery

They rise to great heights under the direction of Antonio Pappano

She is transcendent as Giselle

Of his ideas

18 - 28 October 1989

the cast is led by a sublime John Tomlinson as the Minotaur

The King lives in a close but uneasy relationship with his wife Isabel

Alberti: Nicolas Courjal

Choreographer: Marius Petipa

Damon: Paul Agnew | Steven McRae

Running Time: 125+12 mins

Verdi's Stiffelio is an essential part of the composer's canon