Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Librettist: Cesare Sterbini
Benini; DiDonato, Flórez, Mattei, Del Carlo, Relyea
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Approximate running time: 2 hrs. 45 min.
Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production, which
found fresh and surprising ways to bring Rossini’s effervescent comedy
closer to them than ever before. The stellar cast leapt to the challenge
with irresistible energy and bravura vocalism. Juan Diego Flórez is
Count Almaviva, who fires off showstopping coloratura as he woos Joyce
DiDonato’s spirited Rosina—with assistance from Peter Mattei as the one
and only Figaro, Seville’s beloved barber and man-about-town.
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