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Filmed in 2017, John Cox’s Garsington Opera production of Mozart’s Figaro is a superb example of traditional age placing at its best: rational without resorting to weighty interprets and marvellous in both its sharpness of social and mental watching and its subtlety of detail. It’s beautifully sung and behaved by a finely integrated ensemble cast that opposes Joshua Bloom’s musing Figaro and Jennifer France’s spirited Susanna against Duncan Rock’s dangerously beautiful Count. Kirsten MacKinnon is his put-upon Countess, troubled yet tellingly enjoyed by the attentions of Marta Fontanals-Simmons’s Cherubino, and there are wonderful performances from Janis Kelly, rarely bettered as Marcellina, and Timothy Robinson’s unctuous Basilio. Every second is a real treat. Tim Ashley

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