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Harnoncourt offers a richly varied Le nozze di Figaro in Vienna

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Reviewed at Theater an der Wien, Vienna on 8 March 2014
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (In Concert)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor
Felix Breisach, Director
Christine Schäfer, Countess Almaviva
Mari Eriksmoen, Susanna
Elisabeth Kulman, Cherubino
Bo Skovhus, Count Almaviva
Andrè Schuen, Figaro
Peter Kálmán, Doctor Bartolo
Christina Gansch, Barbarina
Ildikó Raimondi, Marcellina
Concentus Musicus Wien
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
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