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Il Barbiere di Siviglia - MET Opera Live in HD (Filmed Opera)

This live cinema transmission is part of the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theatres across the globe.

The Met’s inventive production of Rossini’s effervescent comedy, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, stars Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva.

Rossini’s perfectly honed treasure survived a famously disastrous opening night (caused by factions and local politics more than any reaction to the work itself) to become what may be the world’s most popular comic opera. Its buoyant good humour and elegant melodies have delighted the diverse tastes of every generation for two centuries, and several of the opera’s most recognizable tunes have entered the world’s musical unconscious, most notably the introductory patter song of the swaggering Figaro, the titular barber of Seville.

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