Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro Blu-ray (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

Insight into key themes and artistic style

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entertaining and

from the magnificence of the ballroom scene to the market place

Anthony Dowell in conversation with Darcey Bussell

Macduff: Dimitri Pittas

flapping her ‘wings’ in her death throes set before a giant branch of weeping cherry blossoms

with atmospheric sets by Pier Luigi Samaritani and beautiful costumes by Yolanda Sonnabend

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"Jaho alternates between vulnerability and feistiness

Ferrando: Daniel Behle

Countess Almaviva: Dorothea Röschmann