What can I say about a video where just about everything goes right? Under Claudio Abbado's wise baton, the Vienna Philharmonic plays Mozart's Marriage to a gleeful Vienna State Opera crowd. The cast is full of star-studded singers, most notably Cheryl Studer and Ruggero Raimondi. The dynamics are well balanced, the articulations crisp, and the chorus is actually in balance with the singers and orchestra for the first time that I can remember in an opera video.This is a great buy as Abbado and company make the vibrant Vienna State Opera House ring with the beautiful sounds that only such a house could possess. I saw this production of the Marriage of Figaro live myself at the opera house, and this video is almost a replica of the performance's quality.
What a video!! Thanks Amazon!!!
