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Duration: 3 hours, 20 minutes

A richly-detailed staging of Mozart's comic masterpiece from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Antonio Pappano conducts David McVicar's highly-acclaimed production with a superb cast including Gerald Finley as the Count, Dorothea Roschmann as the Countess, Erwin Schrott as Figaro and Miah Persson as Susanna. Presented by Charles Hazlewood.

Last on

Fri 28 May 2010 19:30 BBC Four

  • Photo: Antonio Pappano

    Photo: Antonio Pappano

    Antonio Pappano conducts The Marriage of Figaro at the Royal Opera House.

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Credits

Conductor
Antonio Pappano
Figaro
Erwin Schrott
Susanna
Miah Persson
Bartolo
Jonathan Veira
Marcellina
Graciela Araya
Cherubino
Rinat Shaham
Count Almaviva
Gerald Finley
Don Basilio
Philip Langridge
Countess Almaviva
Dorothea Roschmann
Antonio
Jeremy White
Don Curzio
Francis Egerton
Barbarina
Ana James
Presenter
Charles Hazlewood
Director
Jonathan Haswell
Director
David McVicar
Producer
Ben Weston
Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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