La Finta Giardiniera

The Pretend Garden Girl

Overview

Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year old composer's first mature opera buffa. Hilarity mingles with passionate emotions when belfiore believes he has killed his lover in a fit of jealousy, but then encounters her disguised as gardener sandrina. Famed filmmaker Doris Dorie directs a superb young cast in this tale of love, hate and intrigue across class barriers, all vividly depicted by Mozart's astonishingly rich and varied music.

Key Crew

Top Cast

John Graham-Hall

Don Anchise

Alexandra Reinprecht

Violante Onesti

John Mark Ainsley

Contino Belfiore

Véronique Gens

Arminda

Ruxandra Donose

Cavalier Ramiro

Adriana Kučerová

Serpetta

Markus Werba

Roberto

Ivor Bolton

Conductor

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