Our weekly find from the Mike Richter collection: Le nozze di Figaro from the Bayerische Staatsoper with a geniunely A-list cast.
From “Opera from München, Volume 1,” a live recording from July 27/29, 1987:
Figaro: Hermann Prey
Susanna: Helen Donath
Conte Almaviva: Thomas Allen
Contessa Almaviva: Margaret Price
Cherubino: Anne Sophie von Otter
Bartolo: Kurt Moll
Marcellina: Cornelia Wulkopf
Basilio: David Thaw
Antonio: Gerhard Auer
Barbarina: Frances Lucey
Don Curzio: Friedrich Lenz
Conductor: Colin Davis