Met Opera, Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Runs Nov 18 – Dec 6, 2014

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CAST

Mariotti; Leonard, Brownlee, Maltman, Muraro, Burchuladze

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

Approximate running time 3 hrs. 0 min.
In Bartlett Sher’s effervescent production of Rossini’s most popular opera, Isabel Leonard is the beautiful and feisty Rosina, who won’t be kept under lock and key. Lawrence Brownlee is her conspiring flame, Almaviva, and Christopher Maltman is the omnipotent barber, Figaro. Michele Mariotti conducts.

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