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Title: Simple sets allow the music and singing to stand out
Review: A traditional staging, with simple yet attractive sets, allow the singers to shine in this production which innaugurated the Glyndebourne Festival's renovated opera house. The music was appropriately light and airy, EXCEPT, and this is why I did not give this version a fifth star, in Figaro's marriage scene. I feel that Maestro Haitink could have brought the volume up and sustained it a little longer on a celebratory tone. I couldn't help but compare it with the same scene in the movie "Amadeus", which to me, is the way it should look and sound.
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