Casting

• Royal Opera Chorus
• Antonio Pappano (Conductor)
• Moshe Leiser (Stage Direction)
• Patrice Caurier (Stage Direction)
• Joyce DiDonato (Mezzo-soprano) : Rosina
• Pietro Spagnoli (Baritone) : Figaro
• Juan Diego Flórez (Tenor) : Count Almaviva
• Alessandro Corbelli (Baritone) : Doctor Bartolo
• Ferruccio Furlanetto (Bass) : Don Basilio
• Changhan Lim (Baritone) : Fiorello
• Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Soprano) : Berta
• Bryan Secombe (Bass) : Ambroglio
• Christopher Lackner (Bass) : Officer
• Andrew Macnair (Tenor) : Notary

Program

Il Barbiere di Siviglia
‘Commedia’ in two acts by Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini based on 'Le Barbier de Séville' by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
First performance in Rome, Teatro Argentina, 20 February 1816

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Recording: July 1 2009 - Royal Opera House | London
Director: David Stevens
Duration: 02:56