Title: Figaro the Car Salesman
Review: I purchased this disk for one reason and one reason only: Amazon lists the delightful British soprano Sally Matthews, who captured my heart in Gianni Schicchi and Alice, as one of the performers. Well she isn't. Unless she's hiding in a car trunk. So what did I get? A Eurotrash production of an operatic masterpiece set in an auto dealership. If you're going to stage an opera in an auto dealership, Electra would be the best choice since Buick made one. But I should have been more cautious when I saw it was De Nederlandse Opera who undoubtedly have a performance in the works of Aida with the Grand March set in the checkout line at Walmart or Billy Budd set in Captain Verve's bathtub. This is actually a good performance featuring singers who can sing and act and musicians who can play if you can get over the ludicrously ridiculous staging. I have numerous recording of Figaro and this one goes on the bottom of the stack.
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