Was reminded of this the other day, checked, and lo, YouTube has it: the 1995 Marriage of Figaro which tells the whole story in English and in a (then) contemporary setting (so Almaviva is a Tory MP, for example). I still think it's a great way to get across the bite and wit of Da Ponte's libretto, and of course Mozart's music works its charm in any settting:
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