Offer,Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Beverly Sills (Rosina), Nicolai Gedda (Il Conte Almaviva), Sherrill Milnes (Figaro), Renato Capecchi (Dr. Bartolo), Ruggero Raimondi (Dr. Bartolo), Fedora Barbieri (Berta) & Joseph Galiano (Fiorello)
John Alldis Choir & London Symphony Orchestra, James Levine
Levine's 1975 Barber offers a coloratura soprano Rosina instead of the mezzo Rossini intended. Sills is on the brittle side, Milnes's Figaro is crass and Gedda's off form. —
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Work length2:30:50
Album only
Album only
- Nicola Gedda (tenor), Beverly Sills (soprano), Sherrill Milnes (baritone)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- James Levine
- Recorded: 1996-01-01
- Recording Venue: 16-28 August 1974 and 14 May 1975, All Saints', Tooting
Overture
Track length7:26
$1.30
$1.70
Act I Scene 1 - Piano, pianissimo, senzar parlar (Fiorello, Musicians, Count)
Track length2:57
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Ecce ridente in cielo (Count)
Track length4:55
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