Mozart specialist Colin Davis directs an exceptional recording of this witty, sophisticated,compact, comic opera. The superlative cast, including a stellar Kiri Te Kanawa, and the excellent orchestra respond to Davis"s finely polished account of the score, deftly balancing the humanity, irony, pain and humour of Da Ponte"s complex battle of the sexes. Packaged in an attractive clamshell box with full libretto online. Recorded at the Royal Opera House, London, 27 January 1981.