Mozart - Complete Operas (Salzburger Festspiele)

The set of all 22 Mozart operas, as performed at the 2006 Salzburg Festival, was the grand culmination of the Mozart Year celebration and a milestone in the history of Mozart performance. Now it is being made available in a new integrated packaging as a Limited Edition at a super-value price.

On these complete, live recordings, all the Festival’s own productions appeared for the first time on DVD, while many of the lesser-known works were seen for the first time only any video format – 51 hours of music on 33 High Definition DVDs in 5.1 Surround Sound.

Included in the set is every opera and singspiel, rarities and scenic fragments, plus reports on the making of the productions, artist interviews and rehearsal excerpts.

HIGHLIGHTS: The Marriage of Figaro with Anna Netrebko (Susanna), Ildebrando d’Arcangelo (Figaro), Bo Skovhus (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess) and Christine Schäfer (Cherubino) under Nikolaus Harnoncourt; Idomeneo with Ramón Vargas and Magdalena Kožená (Idamante) under Sir Roger Norrington; Don Giovanni with Thomas Hampson (Don), Ildebrando d’Arcangelo (Leporello) Christine Schäfer (Donna Anna) under Daniel Harding.

Ivor Bolton conducts Die Entführung and La finta giardiniera; Marc Minkowski conducts Mitridate Re di Ponto.

PACKAGING: 3 Digistaks in a hard-cover slipcase; booklet with tracklists and synopses in English.