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The barber of Seville / Gioacchino Rossini.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 28020
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.
- Series:
- Black Dog opera library
- Standardized Title:
- Barbiere di Siviglia
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Operas--Librettos.
- Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Barbiere di Siviglia.
- Rossini, Gioacchino.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Librettos.
- Physical Description:
- 2 audio discs (152 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (141 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States?] : EMI Classics, [1998]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Summary:
- A marriage of music and the written word. Set includes the full opera on two compact discs, accompanied by the complete libretto in its original language and English translation. Full-color photographs illustrate the history of the opera--and an entertaining text offers insights into the musical heritage of the composers, the music, and the performance.
- Participant:
- Beverly Sills, soprano; Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano ; Nicolai Gedda, tenor ; Renato Capecchi, Sherrill Milnes, baritones ; Ruggero Raimondi, bass ; John Alldis Choir ; London Symphony Orchestra ; James Levine, conductor.
- Notes:
- Comic opera in 2 acts.
- Libretto by Cesare Sterbini after Le barbier de Séville / Pierre Augustin Caron de Beuamarchais, and the libretto often attributed to Giuseppe Petrosellini for Paisiello's Il barbiere di Siviglia.
- Recorded at All Saint's Church, Tooting Graveney, London, Aug. 1974 and May 1975.
- Compact discs.
- Analog recording, digitally remastered.
- First issued in 1975 on 3 analog discs (Angel: SCLX 3761)
- Book (The barber of Seville / Gioacchino Rossini ; text by David Foil. -- New York : Black Dog & Leventhal, p1998) includes background on the composer and opera, synopsis, notes on the performers, and libretto in Italian with English translation.
- ISBN:
- 1579120202
- OCLC:
- 43819479
- Publisher Number:
- 6882120202
- 72438-19967-2-0 EMI Classics
- SCLX 3761 Angel
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