Opera and classical concerts to watch at home our critics' picks, week seven
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Our critics pick a daily highlight from the treasure trove of online music to help get you through lockdown. This week we bring you slo-mo Pärt, a glorious Figaro and Beethoven’s tenth - yes really
Browse our picks from:• week six• week five• week four• week three• week two• week one
Filmed in 2017, John Cox’s Garsington Opera production of Mozart’s Figaro is a superb example of traditional period staging at its best: intelligent without resorting to weighty glosses and marvellous in both its sharpness of social and psychological observation and its subtlety of detail. It’s beautifully sung and acted by a finely integrated ensemble cast that pits Joshua Bloom’s thoughtful Figaro and Jennifer France’s spirited Susanna against Duncan Rock’s dangerously attractive Count. Kirsten MacKinnon is his put-upon Countess, troubled yet tellingly delighted by the attentions of Marta Fontanals-Simmons’s Cherubino, and there are wonderful performances from Janis Kelly, rarely bettered as Marcellina, and Timothy Robinson’s unctuous Basilio. Every second is a real treat. Tim Ashley Continue reading...
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