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Il barbiere di Siviglia / Rossini ; EuroArts Music International ; Felix Breisach, director.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Internet videos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 37 min.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : EuroArts Music International, [2001]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian; English subtitles.
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- In Zurich, a Barber of Seville full of energy and humour with a perfect Rosine Filmed in April 2001 at the Zurich Opera, this Barber of Seville is by the excellent Rossini. Grischa Asagaroff's direction is full of inspiration and humour: the scenery, a huge fan (naturally since we are in Seville) which swivels facilitating the "production" of gags, and the transposition into the 1930s with the appropriate costumes, side-car and scooter is effective. Acclaimed by the audience, the conductor Nello Santi, who is at home at the Zurich Opera (he was the musical director there for ten years, 1958-1968) is a Rossinian conductor of great stature who also plays the piano part. But the real jewel in this film is Rosine played by Vesselina Kasarova who is an authentic mezzo-soprano coloratura. A virtuoso musician and perfect actor, she is charm personified. Around her is an excellent distribution and it is a delight to see Nicolaoi Ghiaurov in the role of Basil which he performs with great experience
- Participant:
- Reinaldo Macias (Count Almaviva) ; Carlos Chausson (Doctor Bartolo) ; Vesselina Kasarova (Rosina) ; Manuel Lanza (Figaro) ; Nicolai Ghiaurov (Don Basilio) ; Valeriy Murga (Fiorillo) ; Kenneth Robertson (Ambrogio) ; Elizabeth Rae Magnuson (Berta) ; Opernhaus Zürich ; Nello Santi, conductor.
- Notes:
- Recorded 2001 April Zürich Opera House, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Contains:
- Container of: Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Barbiere di Siviglia.
- OCLC:
- 956368618
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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