At The Opera, Rossini: The Barber of Seville, April 21, 2018
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The Barber of Seville is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy Le Barbier de Séville (1775). The première of Rossini's opera (under the title Almaviva, o sia L'inutile precauzione) took place on February 20, 1816 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.
Rossini's Barber has proven to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe". After two hundred years, it remains a popular work.
Cast:
Figaro- Thomas Allen
Rosina – Agnes Baltsa
Count Almaviva – Francisco Araiza
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner – conductor
Philips CD - 1982
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:13 p.m.
Gioacchino Rossini
Gioacchino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor Thomas Allen
10:58 p.m.
Eleanor Steber/Leonard Warren/Dorothy Kirsten/Joan Sutherland/Carlo Bergonzi/Cesare Valleti/Maria Callas/Alfredo Kraus
Verdi
Great Opera at the MET La Traviata excerpts
MET Orchestra; various, conductor Eleanor Steber/Leonard Warren/Dorothy Kirsten/Joan Sutherland/Carlo Bergonzi/Cesare Valleti/Maria Callas/Alfredo Kraus
11:29 p.m.
Kirsten Flagstad
RICHARD WAGNER
Die Walkure, Act 3
Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti, conductor
