![]() Kiri Te Kanawa's Countess, he wrote, was "exquisite, though with a subdued quality that does not project a strong enough profile for the role". ![]() ![]() George Jellinek reviewed the album on LP in the "Best Recordings of the Month" pages of Stereo Review in January 1983. Lorenzo da Ponte painted by Samuel Morse, circa 1830 The cover art shared by the LP, cassette and CD editions of the album is The Gardens of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), a painting in the Wallace Collection, London. The album was digitally recorded in June and December 1981 in the Kingsway Hall, London. The opera is performed with non- period instruments. Marcellina's and Basilio's arias, sometimes dropped, are both included. In accordance with the musicological consensus that held sway at the time of its making, the recording follows the traditional ordering of the numbers in the opera's third act, with the Countess's aria " Dove sono" placed after the sextet "Riconosci in questo amplesso". ![]() Le nozze di Figaro is a 168-minute studio recording of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera of the same name, performed by a cast of singers headed by Sir Thomas Allen, Jane Berbié, Yvonne Kenny, Philip Langridge, Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp, Samuel Ramey, Frederica von Stade, Robert Tear and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Sir Georg Solti.
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