Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492 Overture

Opening Credits:Sinfonia
The English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner:

Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata (Trans: The Marriage of Figaro or the Day of Madness), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. This opera became one of Mozart's most successful works. The overture is especially famous and is often played as a concert piece.
Synopsis:The action of The Marriage of Figaro takes place after the events in The Barber of Seville, and recounts a single day in the palace of the Count Almaviva in Spain. Rosina is now the Countess; her husband, the Count, is seeking the favors of Susanna, who is to be wed to her love, Figaro, the Count's valet. When the Count detects the interest of the young page, Cherubino, in the Countess, he tries to get rid of Cherubino by giving him an officer's commission in his own regiment. Figaro, Susanna, and the Countess conspire to embarrass the Count and expose his infidelity. Meanwhile Figaro is caught up in a dispute with Bartolo and Marcellina, which ends when he is revealed to be their son. At night, all find themselves on the palace grounds, where a comic series of cases of mistaken identity results in the Count's humiliation and then forgiveness by the Countess.
The action takes place in Seville, Spain.

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• Opera_by_Amadeus_Mozart

[XxMissLollipopGirlxX]

Pretty cool if I do say soooo!

[phantomfangurl]

To be, or not to be; that is the question... :)

[MyAndreas92]

oboes and flutes rock.those staccato are very difficult in that tempo

[Nikolausius]

@TheJmacaroni

Well, first of all I think they did a good interpretation (and really good). But yeah, they're using baroque period instruments and not early classical or classical instruments (well, the strings are clearly early classical but the non transposing woodwinds are baroque). I agree that the whole thing might have sounded better with REAL period instruments, but still I think that the oboes and the flutes did quite a good job in trying to catch the late 1700's spirit :-)

[lipkinasl]

@TheJmacaroni What do you expect - this ia period instrument ensemble!

[TheJmacaroni]

At about 0:52 the oboes and flutes get too much of a choppy sound, and about half way through the bassoons go out of tune, but besides that, that wasn't bad!