Given all the myriad versions of Le Nozze di Figaro in the DVD catalogue (eighteen currently available) why would anyone bother with a bog standard version in 18th century dress and with a cast that probably aren’t household names in their own households?  Who (apart from the Toronto Public Library) would buy such a thing?  Anyway, that’s pretty much what you get on the 1994 Lyon recording.  To be fair, there’s nothing wrong with it.  If you saw it live in Winnipeg or Edmonton you probably would feel that you had had an OK night at the opera but why a DVD release?  It’s a mystery!