La Finta Giardiniera (2006)
Music
Overview
Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year old composer's first mature opera buffa. Hilarity mingles with passionate emotions when belfiore believes he has killed his lover in a fit of jealousy, but then encounters her disguised as gardener sandrina. Famed filmmaker Doris Dorie directs a superb young cast in this tale of love, hate and intrigue across class barriers, all vividly depicted by Mozart's astonishingly rich and varied music.
Cast
- John Graham-Hall as Don Anchise
- Alexandra Reinprecht as Violante Onesti
- John Mark Ainsley as Contino Belfiore
- Véronique Gens as Arminda
- Ruxandra Donose as Cavalier Ramiro
- Adriana Kučerová as Serpetta
- Markus Werba as Roberto
- Ivor Bolton as Conductor