Met Opera 2024-25: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
COMPOSER: Gioachino Rossini
CONDUCTOR: Giacomo Sagripant
PRODUCTION: Bartlett Sher
SET DESIGNER: Michael Yeargan
COSTUME DESIGNER: Catherine Zuber
LIGHTING DESIGNER: Christopher Akerlind
CAST: Aigul Akhmetshina, Jack Swanson, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Peter Kalman, Alexander Vinogradov
RUN TIME: 190 minutes
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with Rossini’s effervescent comedy. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production.