Saturday, May 31 :: 1 PM

Metropolitan Opera Live in HD:

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

By Rossini

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12 PM: Pre-opera talk by Andrew Shryock

Production: Bartlett Sher | Set Designer: Michael Yeargan | Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber | Lighting Designer: Christopher Akerlind

Giacomo Sagripanti (Conductor), Aigul Akhmetshina (Rosina), Jack Swanson (Count Almaviva), Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Figaro), Peter Kálmán (Dr. Bartolo), Alexander Vinogradov (Don Basilio).

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of Rossini’s effervescent comedy on May 31. 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.

Approx. runtime: 3 hours, 33 min. with 1 intermission