Mozart - La Finta Giardiniera [2 DVDs] - Universal/Music/DVD

"Interpreters"
Don Anchise - John Graham-Hall
Violante Onesti - Alexandra Reinprecht
Belfiore - John Mark Ainsley
Arminda - Véronique Gens
Ramiro - Ruxandrea Donose
Serpetta - Adriana Kucerová
Roberto - Markus Werba

Members of the Salzburger Landestheater
Dance Company & Supporting Ensemble
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg
Conductor: Ivor Bolton



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 Sandrine. Famed filmmaker Doris Dörrie 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.