Il Barbiere di Siviglia – The Met Opera: Live in HD 2024/25 – Encore Broadcast

Stage on Screen | (12A) | 215 minutes |

Thu 5 Jun | 7.30pm| Encore Broadcast | Screen Two | (12A) | 215min | One Interval

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with a broadcast of Rossini’s effervescent comedy – Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina. She performs alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville. With Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production.

Il Barbiere di Siviglia is an opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. Despite a disastrous opening night – the music teacher tripped over and had a prolonged nosebleed and an unexpected cat wandered on stage. It has gone on to be ‘perhaps the greatest of all comic operas’. Indeed, Rossini himself stayed at home for the second night. This is until he was awoken by the sound of applause and cheering. His opera has delighted audiences ever since. The story follows the escapades of a barber, Figaro, as he assists Count Almaviva in prising the beautiful Rosina away from her lecherous guardian, Dr Bartolo.

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