4 minutes of pure masterpiece....

This is my favorite part of the opera! I love Rossini!!!!

@bucarelli11

9 жыл бұрын

Nubia SC La mia también...

@mscott3918

6 жыл бұрын

So do I, but the set is ridiculous.

@ferrisontour85

5 жыл бұрын

I would have loved to have seen Fernando Corena in this opera.

@siegfriedweber7956

3 жыл бұрын

@@ferrisontour85 Me too!. The best Rossini-singer...Basso-buffo!

Mad respect for anyone who have the gut to do this!

Wonderful performance of a piece most difficult to perform... Brilliant.

Da brividi, davvero perfetto! Grazie, Metropolitan

I WAS AT THE MET FOR THIS WONDERFUL PRODUCTION OF THE BARBIERE WHAT CAST OF SINGERS IT WAS OUTSTANDING...IT WAS A GREAT SATURDAY OF FUN MUSIC...THANKS

@ballyhigh11

2 жыл бұрын

This was my first ever production I saw at the Met. For $49 in a superb seat. I know, w as absolutely ruined!

@59cdv

Жыл бұрын

While you were there I was watching it broadcast live in HD at our local Cinemark movie theater on a Saturday afternoon in March 2007. Brought my brother & girlfriend kicking and screaming at first but in the end, they were absolutely delighted with it.

Just about the only time in all of opera where the maid gets to shine with a pair of high Cs, and this maid does a terrific job of it!

This Barbiere Is one of the best i've ever seen

@mscott3918

6 жыл бұрын

Whosthatboyalex You should have seen the Met production with Kathleen Battle and Rockwell Blake, that was superb. It had sets too.

@nicola3263

6 жыл бұрын

Whosthatboyalex do you know where to find it?

@misssophie6515

4 жыл бұрын

@@nicola3263 go to the official Met Opera website and then to their on demand service, it has tons of gorgeous productions like this one, they are also streaming many things completely for free at the moment

@gabmor7779

7 ай бұрын

one of?????????? what are the others??? please tellme =)

This is Rossini at his greatest. The tempo is perfect.

@siegfriedweber7956

3 жыл бұрын

No, absolut no! Too nervous and too fast. Poor Gioacchino! Horrible!

@TimothyCHenderson

3 жыл бұрын

@@siegfriedweber7956 He was an anxiety ridden man who lived in frenetic, crazy times. It fits quite nicely.

@siegfriedweber7956

Жыл бұрын

@@JoshFreilich Sorry, you are wrong! Rossini wasn´t a clown. He was a very sensitive Person and suffered often from depression. If you would study the biographies from Weinstock an Stendhal you would change your opinion. I´m sure!

@Chorizo727

Жыл бұрын

@@siegfriedweber7956 an idiotic slow old grandpa you are. Poor you.

@siegfriedweber7956

Жыл бұрын

@@Chorizo727 Thank you very much!! Get well soon!

This is especially brilliant, the stage business is so excruciatingly funny

I like this version very much because you basically can just hear John del Carlo (my favourite basso buffo) and sometimes Joyce di Donato

I would do anything for a DVD of this amazing performance!

@misssophie6515

4 жыл бұрын

me too, but at least it is always available via the Met Opera on demand service

UN FINALE STREPITOSO,SCOPPIETTANTE ,COINVOLGENTE E DI GRANDE BRAVURA.

@puntob2278

Жыл бұрын

Un pelino veloce 😅

@puntob2278

Жыл бұрын

@@JoshFreilich Nono. È vero che siamo davanti a una stretta, ma un po' più lento... Non si capisce niente.

@JoshFreilich

Жыл бұрын

@@puntob2278 non importa. voglio sentirlo MOLTO più velocemente. ho detto quello che ho detto.

@puntob2278

Жыл бұрын

@@JoshFreilich e allora distingua il suo gusto da quello che lei reputa che si "debba fare". 'Sto finale non va bene. Lo dice la partitura, fine. Poi lei può pensare quel che vuole. Buona opera!

This version of Il Barbiere is so perfect, my three favourite singers on the same stage and I also really liekd the staging/ production. The version from Covent Garden with Florez and DiDonato is also a favourite of mine, I would not be able to choose between the two, but luckily I don't have to :-). Such amazing singing! JDF is the definite Almaviva for me.

@siegfriedweber7956

3 жыл бұрын

Don´t forget Abbado and Varviso!

@NYCOPERAFAN

Жыл бұрын

The Covent Garden version lacks Mattei so the Met's is clearly preferable on that account alone.

@misssophie6515

Жыл бұрын

@@NYCOPERAFAN you're right, I will never understand why there are no other DVDs/ recordings of Peter Mattei as Figaro, he is the best 😢 these days he often does difficult stuff like Woyzek and Kindertotenlieder and such, which are just not my thing, but he is my favourite baritone and I heard him live twice in the last year, once singing the Winterreise and once as the Count in Le Nozze, which was wonderful - but judging by your alias you are in luck, because you might have the chance to hear him in the upcoming Met productions?

@NYCOPERAFAN

Жыл бұрын

@@misssophie6515 Yes I always make a point of seeing him at least once in virtually every Met production he takes part in (though I have already seen him sing Don Giovanni 3-4 previous times and that's the new production he's in this upcoming season). He's my favorite of all the opera singers performing today.

@misssophie6515

Жыл бұрын

@@NYCOPERAFAN Lucky you, I would like to see him as DG over here so much, but didn't get the chance yet. People in NYC are twice lucky this season, with PM also singing Don Carlos at the Met at the end of the year! I hope the new DG production will be nice, with the new productions you never know, but I am really hoping for a marvellous recording to enjoy from afar at least! Have fun!

Grandissima interpretazione, fenomenale

Absolutely brilliant

This makes me so happy! Excellent.

Amazing. Absolutely brilliant!

This is a good one, but I still believe the gold standard is the Met's performance from 1958 on RCA with Robert Merrill as Figaro and Roberta Peters as Rosina. That recording is well worth seeking out.

Dream team!

I wish the Met would release this performance on DVD.

@selini52

4 жыл бұрын

59cdv yes it is perfect!

@jordiribes8111

4 жыл бұрын

I think it is avaliable at met opera on demand

Rossini irrangiungibile per chiunque su questo pianeta.

So difficult! So much going on at one time. I wonder how they all concentrate so well.

@mscott3918

6 жыл бұрын

Christine Turner Years of training. I'm director of an opera company, and can tell you that it is really difficult to do it all properly.

Wow See the version at the Covent Garden which the same and Spagnjoliili and Papano Bloody keyboard.

Picolo picolo flauta and Kontrabass is my favorite instruments.

Some negative comments on this fabulous performance reminds me Don Bartolo reaction on Rosina’s Contro un cor aria))) I wish I could be there, that was so much of energy in every note!

I went to a Rangers' game and an opera broke out. Only lacking Messier and Matteau.

W l'opera italiana

I Love this Opera and the cast is Great, but the Performance of Madrid in 2005 is a better Regie Operation con Emilio Sagi

@mariaruskova6054

4 жыл бұрын

There are no better and best, at that level they are all very good. I'm also in love with the production of the Paris National Opera with Sacca, DiDonato and Shausson from 2002 and the one with Florez, DiDonato (in wheelchair), Spanioli, Corbelli and Furlanetto of the ROH from 2009. Madrid 2005 with Florez, Baya, Spanioli and Raimondi is also very good. Don't you think however that if Florez is involved, he always steels the show? I thing Mardid 2005 is the same case, I think Spanioli looks quite disappointed during the curtain bows although he is very good too.

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN BUY THIS VERSION PLEASE

@sarahb.7175

4 жыл бұрын

You can rent it on demand on the Met's website!

@dreamer2anime

4 жыл бұрын

@@sarahb.7175 😃 ty ty ty

@chocolatesouljah

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarahb.7175 Thanks so much! 👏🏿

unerreicht rossini forever e i n f a c h b r i l l a n t !

@siegfriedweber7956

3 жыл бұрын

Rossini ist der absolute Meister der opera buffa. Und ein glühender Verehrer Mozarts. "Das hört man schon an seiner Musik".....sagte mir einst mein Professor an der MH Stuttgart. "Humor und Genialität in höchster Vollendung.

I am desperate!!!

Ma signor... Zitto tu! Ma un dottor... Oh non più! Ma se lei... Non parlar... Ma vorrei... Non gridar... Ma se noi... Zitti voi. Ma se poi... Pensiam noi. Vada ognun pe' fatti suoi, si finisca d'altercar. Mi par d'esser con la testa in un'orrida fucina dove cresce e mai non resta delle incudini sonore l'importuno strepitar. Alternando questo e quello pesantissimo martello fa con barbara armonia muri e volte rimbombar. E il cervello poverello già stordito sbalordito non ragiona, si confonde, si riduce ad impazzar.

w pytę

povero Rossini ...

@siegfriedweber7956

3 жыл бұрын

I think so. You must hear Varviso or Abbado!

coro fuori tempo.

Who orchestrated the percussion into this? It's pretty sloppy.

E dove è il "crescendo rossiniano" in questo finale ? E' tutta una corsa a prendere il pullman.

Too fast!!!!!!!

@Ale-zl9zd

7 жыл бұрын

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@rodolfohuerta7022

6 жыл бұрын

If you playback speed 150 in MX Player.

@Chorizo727

6 жыл бұрын

I thought it was too slow

@delroyroberts9244

6 жыл бұрын

Rubbish! It's Italian confusion at it's greatest.

@siegfriedweber7956

3 жыл бұрын

I agree! The same problem with the music of Mozart. The music will suffer! Please hear Varviso (Ausensi, Berganza, Dara, Benelli) or Abbado )Prey, Barganza, Alva, Montarsolo, Dara). Much better!

If you want to hear how it should really sound, go here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIFmxpaDiKy0gZM.html

@SDNorthEDC

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I like the tempo with Callas and more importantly the recording isn't muffled. Love this performance for the acting but it is near impossible to hear the articulation (which you can in the version you linked)

@jdavis3055

3 жыл бұрын

@@SDNorthEDC The singing is just so much mush. Even the acting, which I don't understand what it's all about, isn't enough to save it, IMHO.

@jdavis3055

3 жыл бұрын

And there's this recording of the entire opera. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKp1qNKbktDHp9o.html&ab_channel=MetropolitanOpera My parents had the vinyl and it's what I judge all others by.

@jdavis3055

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry. My bad. It's here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z2tmxbtxXcS8fqQ.html&ab_channel=ClassicalMusic%2F%2FReferenceRecording

painful to listen too. I don't prefer to judge another one's hard work- but it's a complete mess. and also it's speeded up

@JoshFreilich

Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry, but last I checked, the characters were in a bit of a crisis. So the faster the better.

@handavid6421

Жыл бұрын

​@@JoshFreilich I really do think that the video is sped up but let's leave it as being up to individual preference. excellently played otherwise

Troppo veloce!! Troppo veloce!!! Ah se c'era Toscanini....Questo non è Rossini!!! È il direttore d'orchestra!!!!!!!

@JoshFreilich

Жыл бұрын

I never thought in my wildest dreams I would ever hear of such a thing as a patter song being conducted/sung too fast, but here we are.

Rossini un genio

Another silly production. Modern opera directors are hopeless

@sylviakorman8022

5 жыл бұрын

M Scott oh yeah what a shame it would be for such a serious dramatic opera as the barber of Seville to be staged at all silly 🙄🙄🙄

@Bumblebeebeebee

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing more uninteresting than stupid bashing of modern opera productions by silly self-proclaimed "experts".

Terrible... as having sung this sextet myself in an opera workshop, I expected better

@IceAintNice

8 жыл бұрын

you're funny......sung at the Met?

@latinfreestylesoulvinyl7151

8 жыл бұрын

Sung at NC School of Arts. Thank you :).

@latinfreestylesoulvinyl7151

8 жыл бұрын

I've been in training since I was 14 years old-with formal classical training beginning at 17 yrs old, I have sung roles from operas of the such and I am a Lyric Baritone specializing in bel canto rep and coloratura rep as well... La Fille du Regiment, Don Pasquale, Hamlet, etc., Arias and scenes from these opera among others I have performed in concert staged and semi-operas... shall I go on?

@ifmusicbethefoodofloveegc986

5 жыл бұрын

@@latinfreestylesoulvinyl7151 Perhaps you were unwise to boast if THAT is your claim to fame!

@ifmusicbethefoodofloveegc986

5 жыл бұрын

@@latinfreestylesoulvinyl7151 No, for pity's sake! I've heard more than enough of your imagined successes. Give it a rest!