''The Marriage of Figaro'' (german: Figaros Hochzeit) is a 1949 East German

musical film Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks ...

directed by Georg Wildhagen and starring Angelika Hauff, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender and Sabine Peters. It was based on the opera ''

The Marriage of Figaro ''The Marriage of Figaro'' ( it, Le nozze di Figaro, links=no, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premie ...

'' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, which was itself based on the play ''

'' by Pierre Beaumarchais. The film was made by DEFA, the state production company of East Germany, in their Babelsberg Studio and the nearby Babelsberg Park. It sold 5,479,427 tickets. The production used not the original Italian but a German text. The recitatives were replaced with dialogue spoken by the actors. Except for Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender as Figaro and Mathieu Ahlersmeyer as Count Almaviva, the singing parts were supplied by opera singers.''Figaros Hochzeit''
''Lexikon des internationalen Films'', Zweitausendeins During Figaro's aria "

Non più andrai "Non più andrai" (You shall go no more) is an aria for bass from Mozart's 1786 opera ''The Marriage of Figaro'', K. 492. The Italian libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, '' La folle journée, ...

" (In German: "Nun vergiss leises Flehn"), a battle scene from Veit Harlan's 1942 film '' The Great King'' is shown.

Cast

* Angelika Hauff as Susanna, sung by Erna Berger * Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender as Figaro * Sabine Peters as Countess Rosina, sung by Tiana Lemnitz * Mathieu Ahlersmeyer as Count Almaviva * Elsa Wagner as Marcellina, sung by Margarete Klose * Victor Janson as Dr. Bartolo, sung by Eugen Fuchs *

Alfred Balthoff Alfred Balthoff (1905 – 1989) was a German stage, film and television actor. He also worked as a voice actor, dubbing foreign releases for the German-speaking market. Of Jewish background, he spent the final years of the Nazi era in hiding.No ...

as Basilio, sung by Paul Schmidtmann * Franz Weber as Don Curzio, sung by * Ernst Legal as Antonio, sung by Willi Sahler *

Willi Puhlmann Richard Georg Willi Puhlmann (25 June 1934 – 17 July 1996), was a German fashion photographer, who worked with the top models, stylists and designers in the fashion industry. He was killed when TWA Flight 800 came down shortly after takeoff in ...

as Cherubino, sung by Anneliese Müller *

Katharina Mayberg Katharina Mayberg (1925–2007) was a German film and television actress. Partial filmography * ''Gaspary's Sons'' (1948) * ''The Murder Trial of Doctor Jordan'' (1949) * '' The Marriage of Figaro'' (1949) - Barbarina * ''Theodore the Goalkeep ...

as Barbarina, sung by Elfriede Hingst * as Scribe (not a role in the opera)

References

Bibliography

* Davidson, John E. & Hake, Sabine. ''Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany''. Berghahn Books, 2007.

External links

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''Figaros Hochzeit''

''Figaros Hochzeit''
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