Organization

Schwetzingen Festspiele

Stage director

Michael Hampe

Set designer

Ezio Frigerio

Costume designer

Mauro Pagano

Conductor

Gabriele Ferro

Tenor

David Kuebler

The Count of Almaviva

Bass

Carlos Feller

Doctor Bartolo

Mezzo-soprano

Cecilia Bartoli

Rosina

Baritone

Gino Quilico

Figaro

Robert Lloyd

Don Basilio

Klaus Bruch

Fiorello

Gerhard Karzel

An officer

Others

Choir of the Cologne Opera

Il barbiere di Siviglia -  (The Barber of Seville)

Schwetzingen

Germany

The irresistible Cecilia Bartoli leads an all-star cast in Rossini’s most renowned opera buffa! Filmed live at the Schwetzinger Festspiele, Michael Hampe’s 1988 production of Il Barbiere di Siviliglia strikes the perfect balance between irrepressible exuberance, lighthearted comedy, and high caliber artistry. Music director Gabriele Ferro leads the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart in Rossini’s carbonated masterwork of a score, composed in barely three weeks when he was only 24 years old (though already on his seventeenth opera)! A superlative interpretation of Rossini’s endlessly-entertaining tale of love, greed, and comic hijinx.

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