The Barber of Seville discography
This is a partial discography of The Barber of Seville, an opera by Gioachino Rossini. The work was first performed on 20 February 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
Audio recordings
[edit]Video recordings
[edit]| Year | Cast: Rosina Almaviva Figaro Dr. Bartolo Don Basilio |
Conductor, Opera house and orchestra |
Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Nelly Corradi Ferruccio Tagliavini Tito Gobbi Vito de Taranto Italo Tajo |
Giuseppe Morelli Rome Opera orchestra and chorus |
VHS: Pickwick Cat: |
| 1947 | Lucienne Jourfier Raymond Amade Roger Bourdin Louis Musy Roger Bussonnet |
André Cluytens Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique orchestra and chorus (sung in French) |
VHS: Codo-Cinéma Cat: |
| 1959 | Erika Köth Fritz Wunderlich Hermann Prey Max Proebstl Hans Hotter |
Joseph Keilberth Bavarian State Opera orchestra and chorus (sung in German) |
VHS: Legato Classics Cat: |
| 1972 | Teresa Berganza Luigi Alva Hermann Prey Enzo Dara Paolo Montarsolo |
Claudio Abbado Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus (Film directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, based on his staging at La Scala)[2] |
VHS: Deutsche Grammophon DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Streaming HD video: Carnegie Hall+ |
| 1982 | Maria Ewing Max René Cossotti John Rawnsley Claudio Desderi Ferruccio Furlanetto |
Sylvain Cambreling Glyndebourne Festival orchestra and chorus |
VHS: Castle Cat: DVD: Warner Cat: |
| 1988 | Cecilia Bartoli David Kuebler Louis Quilico Carlos Feller Robert Lloyd |
Gabriele Ferro Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Cologne Opera chorus |
VHS: RCA Cat: DVD: Art Haus Musik Cat: |
| 1989 | Kathleen Battle Rockwell Blake Leo Nucci Enzo Dara Ferruccio Furlanetto |
Ralf Weikert Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus |
VHS: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: |
| 1992 | Jennifer Larmore Richard Croft David Malis Renato Capecchi Simone Alaimo |
Alberto Zedda Netherlands Opera orchestra and chorus |
DVD: Image Cat: |
| 2008 | Rinat Shaham Francesco Meli Roberto Frontali Bruno De Simone Giovanni Furlanetto |
Antonino Fogliani Teatro La Fenice orchestra and chorus |
DVD: Dynamic Cat: 33597 |
| 2009 | Joyce DiDonato Juan Diego Flórez Pietro Spagnoli Alessandro Corbelli Ferruccio Furlanetto |
Antonio Pappano Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus |
Blu-ray: Erato[3] DVD: Virgin Classics |
| 2014 | Isabel Leonard Lawrence Brownlee Christopher Maltman Maurizio Muraro Paata Burchuladze |
Michele Mariotti Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus (Recorded live, 22 November 2014; production: Bartlett Sher) |
Streaming HD video: Met Opera on Demand[4] |
| 2016 | Danielle de Niese Taylor Stayton Björn Bürger Alessandro Corbelli Christophoros Stamboglis |
Enrique Mazzola London Philharmonic Orchestra (recorded live, 21 June 2016, Glyndebourne Festival; stage director: Annabel Arden) |
Blu-ray/DVD: Opus Arte[2] Streaming HD video: Glyndebourne Encore[5] |
| 2018 | Nino Machaidze Dmitry Korchak Leo Nucci Carlo Lepore Ferruccio Furlanetto |
Daniel Oren Arena di Verona orchestra and chorus |
Blu-ray/DVD: Bel Air[6] |
| 2019 | Catherine Trottmann Michele Angelini Florian Sempey Peter Kálmán Robert Gleadow |
Jérémie Rhorer Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, (Laurent Pelly, stage director) |
Blu-ray/DVD: Naxos[7] Cat:2110592 |
References
[edit]Notes
- ^ Recordings of Barber on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
- ^ a b Richard Osborne, Review of 2016 Glyndebourne production, Gramophone, August 2017, pp. 89–90.
- ^ OCLC 984467836.
- ^ Il Barbiere di Siviglia (22 November 2014), Met Opera on Demand.
- ^ Glyndebourne Encore 2016.
- ^ Blu-ray, OCLC 1304525596; DVD, OCLC 1110705884.
- ^ Blu-ray, OCLC 1120936755; DVD, OCLC 1127394209.
Sources
- Burton D. Fisher's The Barber of Seville (Opera Classics Library Series)
