Le nozze di Figaro: 'Contessa perdono' ('Countess, forgive me') – Glyndebourne

Sally Matthews and Audun Iversen perform 'Contessa perdono' in the Festival 2012 production of Le nozze di Figaro.

Director: Michael Grandage

Conductor: Robin Ticciati, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Cast includes:
Vito Priante, Lydia Teuscher, Audun Iversen, Sally Matthews, Isabel Leonard. The Glyndebourne Chorus

Le nozze di Figaro is the quintessential Glyndebourne opera- first performed in 1934 and in 1994 when the opera house re-opened.

‘This is a Figaro of rare grace, naturalness and charm’, said The Daily Telegraph, and for The Sunday Times it was a production that ‘affirms Mozart’s most beloved masterpiece as both of its time and perennially modern, Grandage oiling the comic mechanisms of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto with a master technician’s hands.’

[DuffmaneB]

The restored third act was bold, brilliant. The fourth... was astounding.

[GasCityGuy]

IMO the most moving few minutes in all of opera!

[bobdocteurvelo]

Mozart à lui tout seul rachète l'humanité entière ! merci maestro pour tout !

[michaelangelus]

Beautiful.  The music, the opera, the sentiment.

[LaveMoj]

And then, you know what happened? A miracle😂😂

[CorruptorsLand]

2:06 goosebumps every time she starts to sing!

[Thetruepianoman]

Pausing after the first phrase from the woman, oh my god

[정토깽]

<피가로의 결혼> 중 백작의 아리아 ‘용서해 주오, 부인’ (Contessa, perdono)

[gustavogrande]

can pls somebody tell me, why it means 'contessa perdono' and not 'contessa perdona'? its imperative.

[JWP]

The high point of this amazing opera falls flat on its face here.

[marichristian]

Lovely. It's a shame about the 70's costumes.

[WBFbySteefen]

Not very good (maybe good): I do not the timbre of the soprano's voice and I do not like the tempo.