Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro / Mattei, Oelze, Cambreling

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro • Sylvain Cambreling, cond; Heidi Grant Murphy ( Susanna ); Christiane Oelze ( Countess ); Christine Schäfer ( Cherubino ); Lorenzo Regazzo ( Figaro ); Peter Mattei ( Count ); Helene Schneiderman ( Marcellina, Barbarina ); Roland Bracht ( Bartolo ); Burkhard Ulrich ( Don Basilio ); Frédéric Caton ( Antonio ); Paris Natl Op O & Ch • BBC/OPUS ARTE 960 (2 DVDs: 192:31) Contrary to appearances, not every Mozart film released in 2006 and 2007 was connected to the Salzburg Festival’s attempt to film all his theater works in one season. This particular film, though recorded at the Palais Garnier in Paris in 2006, nevertheless documents the same Christoph Marthaler production that garnered some grumbles at the Salzburg festival in 2001, with much the same cast and conductor. In the interest of presenting all the works in fresh productions, Peter Ruzicka decided to replace this production with a less “experimental” one, a film