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]
1919	Malvina Pereira Edoardo Taliani Ernesto Badini Abele Carnevali Umberto di Lelio	Carlo Sabajno 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	Vittorio Gui 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	Ettore Gracis 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	James Levine London Symphony Orchestra 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	Neville Marriner 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	Bruno Campanella 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	Sonia Ganassi Roberto Servile 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 Raúl Giménez 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	Elina Garanca Lawrence Brownlee Nathan Gunn Bruno de Simone Kristinn Sigmundsson	Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez Munich Radio Orchestra and 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
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	André Cluytens 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 (Film directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, based on his staging at La Scala)[2]	VHS: Deutsche Grammophon DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Streaming HD video: Carnegie Hall+
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
2009	Joyce DiDonato Juan Diego Flórez Pietro Spagnoli Alessandro Corbelli Ferruccio Furlanetto	Antonio Pappano Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus	Blu-ray: Erato[3] DVD: Virgin Classics
2014	Isabel Leonard Lawrence Brownlee Christopher Maltman Maurizio Muraro Paata Burchuladze	Michele Mariotti Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus (Recorded live, 22 November 2014; production: Bartlett Sher)	Streaming HD video: Met Opera on Demand[4]
2016	Danielle de Niese Taylor Stayton Björn Bürger Alessandro Corbelli Christophoros Stamboglis	Enrique Mazzola London Philharmonic Orchestra (recorded live, 21 June 2016, Glyndebourne Festival; stage director: Annabel Arden)	Blu-ray/DVD: Opus Arte[2] Streaming HD video: Glyndebourne Encore[5]
2018	Nino Machaidze Dmitry Korchak Leo Nucci Carlo Lepore Ferruccio Furlanetto	Daniel Oren Arena di Verona orchestra and chorus	Blu-ray/DVD: Bel Air[6]
2019	Catherine Trottmann Michele Angelini Florian Sempey Peter Kálmán Robert Gleadow	Jérémie Rhorer Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, (Laurent Pelly, stage director)	Blu-ray/DVD: Naxos[7] Cat:2110592

References

Notes

1. Recordings of Barber on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
2. Richard Osborne, Review of 2016 Glyndebourne production, Gramophone, August 2017, pp. 89–90.
3. OCLC 984467836.
4. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (22 November 2014), Met Opera on Demand.
5. Glyndebourne Encore 2016.
6. Blu-ray, OCLC 1304525596; DVD, OCLC 1110705884.
7. Blu-ray, OCLC 1120936755; DVD, OCLC 1127394209.

Sources

• Burton D. Fisher's The Barber of Seville (Opera Classics Library Series)