Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

The 22-year-old Cecilia Bartoli is vocally dazzling and subtle in inflection as a Rosina of considerable charm who nevertheless seems less enamoured of ‘Lindoro’ than of her own manipulative... — Opera, April 2019 More…

Release Date: 2nd Nov 2018
Catalogue No: 8024201113
Label: EuroArts

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Cecilia Bartoli (Rosina), David Kuebler (Almaviva), Gino Quilico (Figaro), Carlos Feller (Bartolo), Robert Lloyd (Basilio), Klaus Bruch (Fiorello), Edith Kertész-Gabry (Berta)
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) & Choir of Cologne City Opera
Gabriele Ferro

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Staged by Michael Hampe

Rossini was 24 years old when he wrote his seventeenth opera and most renowned "buffa", The Barber of Seville, in barely three weeks.

This recording is from the 1988 Schwetzinger Festspiele.

Michael Hampe's staging of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, produced while he was in charge of Cologne Opera, is witty and fast-flowing. Speed is the key - and in doing away with alienating effects, the dramatic tension between characters on stage can be wound ever higher.

The orchestra gives a most sensitive and flexible account of Rossini's score. Gabriele Ferro knows the art of subtle differentiation and strikes a happy balance in the dialogue between orchestra and singers.

The soloists, too, are first rate - in particular, the irresistible coloratura brilliance of Cecilia Bartoli.

Cecilia Bartoli is best known for her interpretations of the music of Bellini, Mozart and Rossini. In this production of her early career she undertook the role of Rosina and earned rave reviews. Cecilia Bartoli is winner of the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance and recipient of the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize.

Recorded at the beautiful Rococo theatre Schwetzingen.

DVD Picture: 4:3 – NTSC

DVD Sound: PCM Stereo, DTS 5.1

Language/subtitles: Italian/English, German, French, Spanish

Region code: 0 (worldwide)

Running time: 158 mins

Production Year: 1988

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April 2019

The 22-year-old Cecilia Bartoli is vocally dazzling and subtle in inflection as a Rosina of considerable charm who nevertheless seems less enamoured of ‘Lindoro’ than of her own manipulative skill…All the singers benefit from Michael Hampe’s imaginative yet uneccentric direction and from Gabriele Ferro’s well-calibrated (if not exactly warm-hearted) conducting.

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

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