Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

Given that Pelly works with players of quality, while ensuring that the production’s every detail is of a piece with itself, it’s not surprising that this is a wonderfully well-acted Il barbiere…The... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

Release Date: 13th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: NBD0065V
Label: Naxos

Gramophone Magazine

December 2019

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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

Florian Sempey (Figaro), Catherine Trottmann (Rosina), Michele Angelini (Almaviva), Péter Kálmán (Bartolo), Robert Gleadow (Basilio), Annuziata Vestri (Berta)
Le Cercle de l’Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer, Laurent Pelly

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Rossini’s comic masterpiece The Barber of Seville was based on Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s French play Le Barbier de Séville and is the ultimate opera buffa. The score is a compendium of the composer’s wittiest and most brilliant writing, and includes the famous entrance aria Largo al factotum and a raft of superbly dynamic ensembles. This vibrant and youthful production features Florian Sempey, one of the world’s best Figaros, the ‘Rossini tenor’ Michele Angelini, vivacious and critically admired Catherine Trottmann, and the award-winning team of acclaimed director Laurent Pelly and conductor Jérémie Rhorer who directs his spirited period ensemble Le Cercle de l’Harmonie.

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December 2019

Given that Pelly works with players of quality, while ensuring that the production’s every detail is of a piece with itself, it’s not surprising that this is a wonderfully well-acted Il barbiere…The final salute, however, must go to Jérémie Rhorer and the period instrumentalists of his Le Cercle de l’Harmonie…This, by any measure, is premier cru conducting… My, what skills are on display in every department of this astonishing production!

December 2019

[Angelini] moves his voice around the notes with a high degree of accuracy. At the end of the opera he is allowed to deliver ‘Cessa di più resistere’, and does so extremely well...The period orchestra is technically impressive and admirable in its range of colour. Jérémie Rhorer is a spirited conductor, conveying the score’s sophistication in lithe, witty fashion.

Opera Now December 2019

Florian Sempey has a rumbustious baritone suited to Figaro, Peter Kálmán booms as Bartolo and Robert Gleadow is a detailed Basilio. Catherine Trottmann and Michele Angelini make an attractive and vivacious Rosina and Almaviva: her mezzo is rather anonymous and there is an air of eﬃ ciency about her performance, while his tenor is fluent and he triumphs over every hurdle the role presents. Perhaps most interesting is Jérémie Rhorer’s conducting, using period instruments. The sound is leaner and sharper and has pace.

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