Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (recorded 1950)

'Karajan's first recording of Figaro offers one of the most distinguished casts ever assembled….' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs, 2004)

Evoking a golden era for Mozart in Vienna, this Figaro is one of the treasurable recordings that followed the first meeting, in the Austrian capital in 1946, between the legendary producer Walter Legge and Herbert von Karajan. European-born stars of the Vienna State Opera - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, Sena Jurinac and Erich Kunz - are joined by the superb Canadian bass-baritone George London, who burst onto the Viennese scene in 1949.