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 November 29, 2014

The Barber of Seville - December 6, 2014

The Metropolitan Opera

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Live matinee broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera return to Classical 90.5 at 11:00 a.m. this Saturday, December 6, with a performance of The Barber of Seville (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) by Gioacchino Rossini, set to an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. Sterbini based his libretto on the 1775 French comedy Le Barbier de Séville by Pierre Beaumarchais. The performance will be sung in Italian and run approximately three hours and fifteen minutes.

In the perennially popular The Barber of Seville, the resourceful barber Figaro comes to the aid of his former master, Count Almaviva. The handsome Count is deliriously in love with the ravishing young Rosina, a ward of old Dr. Bartolo, who is determined to marry her himself. Rossini's razor-sharp wit glints through every scene in this riotous yet musically elegant comedy, one of the most popular in the operatic repertoire. Michele Mariotti conducts.

THE CAST
Figaro: Christopher Maltman
Count Almaviva: Lawrence Brownlee
Rosina: Isabel Leonard
Dr. Bartolo: Maurizio Muraro
Don Basilio: Paata Burchuladze

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