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
editVideo 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
editNotes
- ^ 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)
