IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA                                                    Operamania.com

Gioacchino Rossini

Libretto by Cesare Sterbini. Based on the play by Beaumarchais.

First performed at Teatro di Torre Argentina de Roma on 20 February 1816.

 

Orchestra. Conductor. Figaro, Rosina, Il Conte d'Almaviva, Bartolo, Basilio, Berta

 

D.G. 1971

The Ambrosian Opera Chorus / London Symphony Orchestra. Claudio Abbado

Hermann Prey, Teresa Berganza,  Luigi Alva, Enzo Dara, Paolo Montarsolo, Stefania Malagú

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EMI, 1962

Glyndebourne Festival Chorus / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Vittorio Gui

Sesto Bruscantini, Victoria de los Angeles, Luigi Alva, Ian Wallace, Carlo Cava

 

DECCA, 1988

Orchestra e coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Giuseppe Patané

Leo Nucci, Cecilia Bartoli, William Matteuzzi, Enrico Fissore, Paata Burchuladze, Gloria Banditelli

 

RCA, 1958

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus. Erich Leinsdorf

Robert Merrill, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Fernando Corena, Giorgio Tozzi, Margaret Roggero

 

EMI, 1957

Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra. Alceo Galliera

Tito Gobbi, Maria Callas, Luigi Alva,  Fritz Ollendorf, Nicola Zaccaria, Gabriella Carturan

 
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