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The Marriage of Figaro discography

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This is a partial discography of complete performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro. This opera was first performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786.

Recordings

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Year Figaro
Susanna
Count Almaviva
Countess Almaviva
Cherubino
Marcellina
Bartolo
Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra
Label[1]
1942 Erich Kunz
Irma Beilke
Hans Hotter
Helena Braun
Gerda Sommerschuh
Res Fischer
Gustav Neidlinger
Clemens Krauss
Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra
From the 1942 Salzburg Festival, sung in German translation
CD: Music and Arts
1943 Ezio Pinza
Bidu Sayão
John Brownlee
Jarmila Novotná
Marita Farell
Paul Breisach
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
(Recording of a performance at the MET, 17 April)
CD: Guild Immortal Performances
Cat: GHCD 2203/5
1951 Erich Kunz
Hilde Güden
Paul Schöffler
Elisabeth Grümmer
Anny Schlemm
Lilian Benningsen
Wilhelm Schirp
Ferenc Fricsay
Orchester und Chor des Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks Köln
(German version)
CD: Cantus Classics
Cat: CACD 5.00822 F
1953 Erich Kunz
Irmgard Seefried
Paul Schöffler
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Hilde Güden
Sieglinde Wagner
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Vienna Philharmonic
(German version after Hermann Levi)
Live, Salzburg Festival, August 7, 1953
CD: EMI
Cat: 66080-2
1955 Cesare Siepi
Hilde Güden
Alfred Poell
Lisa Della Casa
Suzanne Danco
Hilde Rössel-Majdan
Fernando Corena
Erich Kleiber
Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Chorus
CD: Decca Legends Cat: 466 369-2
Membran Cat: 222932-370
For details, see Le nozze di Figaro (Erich Kleiber recording)
1955 Rolando Panerai
Rita Streich
Heinz Rehfuss
Teresa Stich-Randall
Pilar Lorengar
Hans Rosbaud
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire and
the Chorale Elisabeth Brasseur
(Recording of a performance at the Aix-en-Provence Festival)
CD: Walhall "Eternity Series"
Cat: WLCD 0167
1956 Walter Berry,
Rita Streich,
Paul Schöffler,
Sena Jurinac,
Christa Ludwig
Karl Böhm
Vienna Symphony and Vienna State Opera Chorus
CD: Philips
Cat: 438670
1957 Erich Kunz,
Irmgard Seefried,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,
Christa Ludwig
Karl Böhm
Vienna Philharmonic
Chor der Vienna State Opera
Live, Salzburg Festival, 30 July 1957
CD: Orfeo
Cat: C 296 923 D
1958 Giorgio Tozzi,
Roberta Peters,
George London,
Lisa Della Casa,
Rosalind Elias,
Sandra Warfield,
Fernando Corena
Erich Leinsdorf,
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
CD: Decca
Cat: 444602
1961 Giuseppe Taddei
Anna Moffo
Eberhard Waechter
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Fiorenza Cossotto
Dora Gatta
Ivo Vinco
Carlo Maria Giulini
Philharmonia Orchestra
Producer: Walter Legge (Studio recording from 1959, released in 1961)
CD: EMI
Cat: 358602-2
For details, see Le nozze di Figaro (Giulini 1959 recording)
1960 Renato Capecchi
Irmgard Seefried
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Maria Stader
Hertha Töpper
Lilian Benningsen
Ivan Sardi [hu]
Ferenc Fricsay
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 437 671-2
1963 Geraint Evans
Mirella Freni
Tito Gobbi
Ilva Ligabue
Teresa Berganza
Georg Solti
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
(Recording of a performance at Covent Garden, June 11, 1963)
CD or MP3, operadepot.com
1963 Geraint Evans
Graziella Sciutti
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Hilde Güden
Evelyn Lear
Lorin Maazel
Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna Philharmonic
(Recording of a performance at the Salzburg Festival, July)
DVD: Video Artists International
Cat: VAI DVD 4519
1968 Hermann Prey
Edith Mathis
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Gundula Janowitz
Tatiana Troyanos
Patricia Johnson
Peter Lagger
Karl Böhm
Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 449 728-2
1971 Wladimiro Ganzarolli
Mirella Freni
Ingvar Wixell
Jessye Norman
Yvonne Minton
Maria Casula
Clifford Grant
Sir Colin Davis
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
CD: Philips
Cat: 475 6111 8
1976 Hermann Prey
Mirella Freni
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Kiri Te Kanawa
Maria Ewing
Heather Begg
Paolo Montarsolo
Karl Böhm
Vienna Philharmonic
Film directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: DG 073 4034
1976 Geraint Evans
Judith Blegen
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Heather Harper
Teresa Berganza
Birgit Finnilä
Daniel Barenboim
English Chamber Orchestra and the John Alldis Choir
CD: EMI
Cat: CMS 7 63646-2 (3 CDs);
Cat: 7243 5 85520 2 7 (Abbrev. 2 CDs)
1979 José van Dam
Ileana Cotrubaș
Tom Krause
Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Frederica von Stade
Jane Berbié
Jules Bastin
Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera chorus
CD: Decca
Cat: 421 125-2
For details, see Le nozze di Figaro (Herbert von Karajan recording)
1981 Samuel Ramey
Lucia Popp
Thomas Allen
Kiri Te Kanawa
Frederica von Stade
Jane Berbié
Kurt Moll
Georg Solti
London Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Opera Chorus
CD: Decca
Cat: 410 150-2
For details, see Le nozze di Figaro (Georg Solti recording)
1985 José van Dam
Barbara Hendricks
Ruggero Raimondi
Lucia Popp
Agnes Baltsa
Felicity Palmer
Robert Lloyd
Sir Neville Marriner
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Ambrosian Opera Chorus
CD: Philips
Cat: 416 370-2
1987 Thomas Allen
Kathleen Battle
Jorma Hynninen
Margaret Price
Ann Murray
Mariana Nicolesco
Kurt Rydl
Riccardo Muti
Vienna Philharmonic
CD: EMI
Cat: 72864 2
1988 Sanford Sylvan,
Jeanne Ommerle,
James Maddalena,
Jayne West,
Susan Larson,
Sue Ellen Kuzma,
David Evitts
Craig Smith
Vienna Symphony, Arnold Schoenberg Choir
directed by Peter Sellars, set in Trump Tower[2]
DVD: Decca Records
Cat: B0004243 (2 discs)
1990 Ferruccio Furlanetto
Dawn Upshaw
Thomas Hampson
Kiri Te Kanawa
Anne Sofie von Otter
Tatiana Troyanos
Paul Plishka
James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 477 5614
1990 John Tomlinson
Joan Rodgers
Andreas Schmidt
Lella Cuberli
Cecilia Bartoli
Daniel Barenboim
Berlin Philharmonic and RIAS Kammerchor
CD: Erato
Cat: 2292-45501-2
1993 Bryn Terfel
Alison Hagley
Rod Gilfry
Hillevi Martinpelto
Pamela Helen Stephen
Susan McCulloch
Carlos Feller
John Eliot Gardiner
English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir
(Recorded during performances in the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris)
DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 073 018-9
1994 Anton Scharinger
Barbara Bonney
Thomas Hampson
Charlotte Margiono
Petra Lang
Ann Murray
Kurt Moll
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
CD: Warner Classics
Cat: 2564 68829-8 (2009 re-issue)
1994 Lucio Gallo [it]
Sylvia McNair
Bo Skovhus
Cheryl Studer
Cecilia Bartoli
Anna Caterina Antonacci
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Claudio Abbado
Vienna Philharmonic
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 445 903-2
2001 Lorenzo Regazzo
Patrizia Ciofi
Simon Keenlyside
Véronique Gens
Angelika Kirchschlager
René Jacobs
Concerto Köln and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Choir
CD: Premiere Opera Ltd.
Cat: CDNO 1552-3
2006 Erwin Schrott
Miah Persson
Gerald Finley
Dorothea Röschmann
Rinat Shaham
Graciela Araya
Jonathan Veira
Antonio Pappano
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Opera Chorus
Stage director: David McVicar; recorded live 10, 13, and 17 February
Blu-ray: Opus Arte[3]
2006 Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Anna Netrebko
Bo Skovhus
Dorothea Röschmann
Christine Schäfer
Marie McLaughlin
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Vienna Philharmonic and Konzertvereinigung Vienna State Opera
Director: Brian Large; recorded live at the 2006 Salzburg Festival
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: DG 477 6710

DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: DG 073 4245
2007 Erwin Schrott
Martina Janková
Michael Volle
Malin Hartelius
Judith Schmid
Franz Welser-Möst
Zurich Opera Orchestra and Chorus
DVD: EMI classics
Cat: 2344819
2011 Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Taryn Fiebig
Peter Coleman-Wright
Rachelle Durkin
Sian Pendry
Jacqueline Dark
Patrick Summers
Opera Australia Orchestra and Chorus
Director: Neil Armfield
Blu-ray: Opera Australia
Cat: OPOZ56002BD[4]
2012 Christian Van Horn
Fanie Antonelou
Simone Kermes
Andrei Bondarenko
Mary-Ellen Nesi
Maria Forsstrom
Teodor Currentzis
Perm Opera Orchestra and Chorus
CD: Sony Classical
Cat: 88883709262[5]
2016 Adam Plachetka
Martina Janková
Luca Pisaroni
Anett Fritsch [de]
Margarita Gritskova
Ann Murray
Dan Ettinger
Vienna Philharmonic
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf [de]
Blu-ray: EuroArts
Cat: 8024272951[6]
DVD: EuroArts
Cat: 8024272958[7]
2016 Luca Pisaroni
Christiane Karg
Thomas Hampson
Sonya Yoncheva
Angela Brower
Anne Sofie von Otter
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Vocalensemble Rastatt [de]
Concert performance at Baden-Baden Summer Festival
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 028947959458[8]

Films

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The Marriage of Figaro has been filmed as opera several times.

References

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  1. ^ Recordings of The Marriage of Figaro on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
  2. ^ Le nozze di Figaro, DVD in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  3. ^ London, 2006: Blu-ray, OCLC 1242883783.
  4. ^ The Marriage of Figaro, ABC Shop
  5. ^ The Marriage of Figaro, Amazon Shop
  6. ^ Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492, Presto Classical
  7. ^ Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492, Presto Classical
  8. ^ "Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro CD review – an immaculate marriage, but lacking joy" by Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 14 July 2016