La Finta Giardiniera

The Pretend Garden Girl

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.

• Release date
• January 7, 2006
• Runtime
• 161 min
• Genres
• Music
• Director
• Agnes Méth

Cast

John Graham-Hall Don Anchise Alexandra Reinprecht Violante Onesti John Mark Ainsley Contino Belfiore Véronique Gens Arminda Ruxandra Donose Cavalier Ramiro Adriana Kučerová Serpetta

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Markus Werba Roberto Ivor Bolton Conductor