The Barber of Seville discography
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
Year | Cast: Rosina Count Almaviva Figaro Dr. Bartolo Don Basilio |
Conductor, Opera house and orchestra |
Label[1] |
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1919 | Malvina Pereira Edoardo Taliani Ernesto Badini Abele Carnevali Umberto di Lelio |
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus
|
CD: HMV Cat: 5110-5138 |
1950 | Giulietta Simionato Luigi Infantino Giuseppe Taddei Carlo Badioli Antonio Cassinelli |
Fernando Previtali Coro e Orchestra della Rai di Milano |
CD: Warner Fonit Cat: 5046 71224-2 |
1954 | Antonietta Pastori Nicola Monti Rolando Panerai Marcello Cortis Franco Calabrese |
Carlo Maria Giulini RAI National Symphony Orchestra |
CD: Great Opera Performances Cat: G.O.P. 66.104 |
1956 | Maria Callas Luigi Alva Tito Gobbi Melchiorre Luise Nicola Rossi-Lemeni |
Carlo Maria Giulini Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus |
CD: Cetra |
1957 | Giulietta Simionato Alvinio Misciano Ettore Bastianini Fernando Corena Cesare Siepi |
Alberto Erede Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra and chorus |
CD: Decca Records Cat: 467 4112 |
1957 | Maria Callas Luigi Alva Tito Gobbi Fritz Ollendorf Nicola Zaccaria |
Alceo Galliera Philharmonia Orchestra and chorus |
CD: EMI Classics Cat: 3920462 |
1958 | Roberta Peters Cesare Valletti Robert Merrill Fernando Corena Giorgio Tozzi |
Erich Leinsdorf Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus (An unusual performance with no cuts) |
LP: RCA Victor Cat: LSC-6143 CD: RCA Victor Cat: 09026-68552-2 |
1959 | Graziella Sciutti Nicola Monti Rolando Panerai Renato Capecchi Mario Petri |
Renato Fasano Collegium Musicum Italicum |
CD: Walhall |
1963 | Victoria de los Ángeles Luigi Alva Sesto Bruscantini Ian Wallace Carlo Cava |
Glyndebourne Festival orchestra and chorus
|
CD: EMI Classics Cat: CMS 7 64162 2 |
1964 | Teresa Berganza Ugo Benelli Manuel Ausensi Fernando Corena Nicolai Ghiaurov |
Silvio Varviso Orchestra Rossini di Napoli and chorus |
CD: Decca Records Cat: 452 5912 |
1969 | Teresa Berganza Ugo Benelli Domenico Trimarchi Alfredo Mariotti Paolo Montarsolo |
Teatro La Fenice orchestra and chorus
|
CD: Mondo Musica |
1971 | Teresa Berganza Luigi Alva Hermann Prey Enzo Dara Paolo Montarsolo |
Claudio Abbado London Symphony Orchestra Ambrosian Singers |
CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 457 7332 |
1974 | Beverly Sills Nicolai Gedda Sherrill Milnes Renato Capecchi Ruggero Raimondi |
John Alldis Choir
|
CD: EMI Classics Cat: 7243-5-85523 Cat: 3932762 |
1982 | Marilyn Horne Paolo Barbacini Leo Nucci Enzo Dara Samuel Ramey |
Riccardo Chailly Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus |
CD: Fonit Cetra Cat: CDC 30 CD: Warner Fonit Cat: 3984 29187-2 |
1985 | Agnes Baltsa Francisco Araiza Thomas Allen Domenico Trimarchi Robert Lloyd |
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Ambrosian singers |
CD: Philips Cat: 446 448-2 CD: Decca Records Cat: 470 434-2 |
1987 | Luciana Serra Rockwell Blake Bruno Pola Enzo Dara Paolo Montarsolo |
Teatro Regio di Torino orchestra and chorus(recorded in June) |
CD: Nuova Era Cat: 223299 |
1988 | Cecilia Bartoli William Matteuzzi Leo Nucci Enrico Fissore Paata Burchuladze |
Giuseppe Patanè Teatro Comunale di Bologna orchestra and chorus |
CD: Decca Records Cat: 425 520-2 |
1992 | Ramon Vargas Angelo Romero Franco De Grandis |
Will Humburg Failoni Chamber Orchestra and Hungarian Radio Chorus |
CD: Naxos Cat: 8.660027-29 |
1992 | Kathleen Battle Frank Lopardo Plácido Domingo Lucio Gallo Ruggero Raimondi |
Claudio Abbado Chamber Orchestra of Europe and chorus |
CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 435 763-2GH2 |
1993 | Suzanne Mentzer Jerry Hadley Thomas Hampson Bruno Pratico Samuel Ramey |
Gianluigi Gelmetti Orchestra della Toscana |
CD: EMI Cat: 54863 2 |
1993 | Jennifer Larmore Rual Gimenez Håkan Hagegård Alessandro Corbelli Samuel Ramey |
Jesús López Cobos Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Grand-Théâtre de Genève |
CD: Teldec Cat: 9031-74885-2 |
1995 | Della Jones, Bruce Ford, Alan Opie Andrew Shore Peter Rose |
Gabrielle Bellini English National Opera orchestra and chorus |
CD: Chandos Records Cat: Chan3025 |
1997 | Edita Gruberová Juan Diego Flórez Vladimir Chernov Enric Serra Francesco Ellero d'Artegna |
Ralf Weikert Munich Radio Orchestra and chorus |
CD: Nightingale Classics Cat: NC 004022 |
2005 | Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
|
CD: Sony Classical Cat: 82876 804292 |
Video recordings
Year | Cast: Rosina Almaviva Figaro Dr. Bartolo Don Basilio |
Conductor, Opera house and orchestra |
Label |
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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 |
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 |
VHS: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: |
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 |
2010 | Joyce DiDonato Juan Diego Flórez Pietro Spagnoli Alessandro Corbelli Ferruccio Furlanetto |
Antonio Pappano Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus |
DVD: Virgin Classics Cat: |
2017 | Danielle de Niese Taylor Stanton Björn Bürger Alessandro Corbelli Christophoros Stamboglis |
Enrique Mazzola London Philharmonic Orchestra |
DVD: Opus Arte Cat: |
2018 | Nino Machaidze Dmitry Korchak Leo Nucci Carlo Lepore Ferruccio Furlanetto |
Daniel Oren Arena di Verona orchestra and chorus |
DVD: Bel Air Cat: |
2019 | Catherine Trottmann Michele Angelini, Florian Sempey Peter Kálmán Robert Gleadow |
Jérémie Rhorer Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Laurent Pelly, stage director |
DVD:Naxos Cat:2110592 |
References
Notes
Sources
- Burton D. Fisher's The Barber of Seville (Opera Classics Library Series)