La Finta Giardiniera

The story

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

J John Graham-HallDon Anchise A Alexandra ReinprechtViolante Onesti J John Mark AinsleyContino Belfiore V Véronique GensArminda R Ruxandra DonoseCavalier Ramiro A Adriana KučerováSerpetta M Markus WerbaRoberto I Ivor BoltonConductor