Live from the Met:
The Barber of Seville
From the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
Taking as its starting point
Beaumarchais's famous play of 1775 and originally entitled Almaviva or The Useless Precaution to distinguish it from rival settings, Rossini's comic masterpiece was sketched in a fortnight, first performed in 1816 and shows no signs of losing its popularity. Sung in Italian and introduced by Peter Allen.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor Edoardo Muller
Actl
8.05 Cecilia Bartoli
Acclaimed as one of the finest
Rossini singers of today,
Cecilia Bartoli talks to Joanne Watson about singing, acting and doing both at once.
8.35 Act 2
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SOUNDING THE CENTURY