Mozart's Marriage of Figaro is a comedy whose dark undertones explore the blurred boundaries between dying feudalism and emerging Enlightenment. Herman Prey's Figaro is admirably sung in a firm baritone and aptly characterized. So too, is his antagonist, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as the Count perpetually frustrated by the scheming wiles of Figaro and Susanna, here the perky Mirella Freni, who sings and acts like a dream. The Countess is creamy-voiced Kiri Te Kanawa, and the Cherubino, Maria Ewing, looks just like the horny, teenaged page she's supposed to be. The all-star leads are complemented by worthy supporting singers, the Vienna Philharmonic at the top of its form, and the experienced Mozartian, Karl Böhm conducting a stylishly fleet performance.
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Music, Documentary, TV Movie
9.0
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Animation, Family
6.1
Last Ma(i)nland
Documentary
5.8
Hanna-Barbera's 50th
Comedy, Fantasy, Family, Animation, Documentary, TV Movie
9.2
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
War, Drama
6.0
Dschugaswili from Georgia
6.5
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara
Drama
5.7
Hunters
Action
6.0
Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk IV
Animation, Action, Comedy, Science Fiction
4.4
Next Exit, Main Street
Documentary
6.3
Michael Lives Alone
Horror, Thriller
8.4
Main Atal Hoon
Drama
5.8
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Comedy, Drama
6.2
Best of Video Track 77 & 78
Documentary
1.0
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
Documentary
5.7
Main Man
Drama
6.3
Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk I
Animation, Science Fiction, Comedy
5.8
People
Drama
7.8
Coconut The Little Dragon: Into The Jungle
Animation, Family, Comedy
6.0
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Comedy, War
7.9
The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka
Music
0.0
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Music
5.0
Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala
Drama, Music, Romance
8.0
Die Walküre
Music, Drama
8.1
Siegfried
Music
7.5
Don Giovanni
Music, Drama
7.0
Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II
Music
0.0
Les Contes d'Hoffman
Drama, Comedy
0.0
Oh, for a Man!
Music, Romance
5.7
Confession of the Vanished
Documentary, Music
8.0
Silentium
Thriller, Crime, Comedy
7.3
Zaryadye Hall: A Diamond is Hatched
Documentary, Music
7.0
La Traviata
Music
6.5
Così fan tutte
Music, TV Movie
6.8
Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
Music
0.0
The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Music
0.0
Die Nacht aus Blei
Music, Fantasy, TV Movie, Romance
8.0
Otello
Music, Documentary
0.0
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
Music, Drama
0.0