# The Barber of Seville discography

This is a partial discography of The Barber of Seville, an opera by Gioachino Rossini. The work was first performed on 20 February 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.

## Audio recordings

| Year | Cast: Rosina Count Almaviva Figaro Dr. Bartolo Don Basilio | Conductor, Opera house and orchestra | Label |
| 1919 | Malvina Pereira Edoardo Taliani Ernesto Badini Abele Carnevali Umberto di Lelio | Carlo Sabajno Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus | CD: HMV Cat: 5110-5138 |
| 1950 | Giulietta Simionato Luigi Infantino Giuseppe Taddei Carlo Badioli Antonio Cassinelli | Fernando Previtali Coro e Orchestra della Rai di Milano | CD: Warner Fonit Cat: 5046 71224-2 |
| 1954 | Antonietta Pastori Nicola Monti Rolando Panerai Marcello Cortis Franco Calabrese | Carlo Maria Giulini RAI National Symphony Orchestra | CD: Great Opera Performances Cat: G.O.P. 66.104 |
| 1956 | Maria Callas Luigi Alva Tito Gobbi Melchiorre Luise Nicola Rossi-Lemeni | Carlo Maria Giulini Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus | CD: Cetra |
| 1957 | Giulietta Simionato Alvinio Misciano Ettore Bastianini Fernando Corena Cesare Siepi | Alberto Erede Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra and chorus | CD: Decca Records Cat: 467 4112 |
| 1957 | Maria Callas Luigi Alva Tito Gobbi Fritz Ollendorf Nicola Zaccaria | Alceo Galliera Philharmonia Orchestra and chorus | CD: EMI Classics Cat: 3920462 |
| 1958 | Roberta Peters Cesare Valletti Robert Merrill Fernando Corena Giorgio Tozzi | Erich Leinsdorf Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus (An unusual performance with no cuts) | LP: RCA Victor Cat: LSC-6143 CD: RCA Victor Cat: 09026-68552-2 |
| 1959 | Graziella Sciutti Nicola Monti Rolando Panerai Renato Capecchi Mario Petri | Renato Fasano Collegium Musicum Italicum | CD: Walhall |
| 1963 | Victoria de los Ángeles Luigi Alva Sesto Bruscantini Ian Wallace Carlo Cava | Vittorio Gui Glyndebourne Festival orchestra and chorus | CD: EMI Classics Cat: CMS 7 64162 2 |
| 1964 | Teresa Berganza Ugo Benelli Manuel Ausensi Fernando Corena Nicolai Ghiaurov | Silvio Varviso Orchestra Rossini di Napoli and chorus | CD: Decca Records Cat: 452 5912 |
| 1969 | Teresa Berganza Ugo Benelli Domenico Trimarchi Alfredo Mariotti Paolo Montarsolo | Ettore Gracis Teatro La Fenice orchestra and chorus | CD: Mondo Musica |
| 1971 | Teresa Berganza Luigi Alva Hermann Prey Enzo Dara Paolo Montarsolo | Claudio Abbado London Symphony Orchestra Ambrosian Singers | CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 457 7332 |
| 1974 | Beverly Sills Nicolai Gedda Sherrill Milnes Renato Capecchi Ruggero Raimondi | James Levine London Symphony Orchestra John Alldis Choir | CD: EMI Classics Cat: 7243-5-85523 Cat: 3932762 |
| 1982 | Marilyn Horne Paolo Barbacini Leo Nucci Enzo Dara Samuel Ramey | Riccardo Chailly Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus | CD: Fonit Cetra Cat: CDC 30 CD: Warner Fonit Cat: 3984 29187-2 |
| 1985 | Agnes Baltsa Francisco Araiza Thomas Allen Domenico Trimarchi Robert Lloyd | Neville Marriner Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Ambrosian singers | CD: Philips Cat: 446 448-2 CD: Decca Records Cat: 470 434-2 |
| 1987 | Luciana Serra Rockwell Blake Bruno Pola Enzo Dara Paolo Montarsolo | Bruno Campanella Teatro Regio di Torino orchestra and chorus (recorded in June) | CD: Nuova Era Cat: 223299 |
| 1988 | Cecilia Bartoli William Matteuzzi Leo Nucci Enrico Fissore Paata Burchuladze | Giuseppe Patanè Teatro Comunale di Bologna orchestra and chorus | CD: Decca Records Cat: 425 520-2 |
| 1992 | Sonia Ganassi Roberto Servile Ramon Vargas Angelo Romero Franco De Grandis | Will Humburg Failoni Chamber Orchestra and Hungarian Radio Chorus | CD: Naxos Cat: 8.660027-29 |
| 1992 | Kathleen Battle Frank Lopardo Plácido Domingo Lucio Gallo Ruggero Raimondi | Claudio Abbado Chamber Orchestra of Europe and chorus | CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 435 763-2GH2 |
| 1993 | Suzanne Mentzer Jerry Hadley Thomas Hampson Bruno Pratico Samuel Ramey | Gianluigi Gelmetti Orchestra della Toscana | CD: EMI Cat: 54863 2 |
| 1993 | Jennifer Larmore Raúl Giménez Håkan Hagegård Alessandro Corbelli Samuel Ramey | Jesús López Cobos Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Grand-Théâtre de Genève | CD: Teldec Cat: 9031-74885-2 |
| 1995 | Della Jones, Bruce Ford, Alan Opie Andrew Shore Peter Rose | Gabrielle Bellini English National Opera orchestra and chorus | CD: Chandos Records Cat: Chan3025 |
| 1997 | Edita Gruberová Juan Diego Flórez Vladimir Chernov Enric Serra Francesco Ellero d'Artegna | Ralf Weikert Munich Radio Orchestra and chorus | CD: Nightingale Classics Cat: NC 004022 |
| 2005 | Elina Garanca Lawrence Brownlee Nathan Gunn Bruno de Simone Kristinn Sigmundsson | Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez Munich Radio Orchestra and Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks | CD: Sony Classical Cat: 82876 804292 |

## Video recordings

| Year | Cast: Rosina Almaviva Figaro Dr. Bartolo Don Basilio | Conductor, Opera house and orchestra | Label |
| 1946 | Nelly Corradi Ferruccio Tagliavini Tito Gobbi Vito de Taranto Italo Tajo | Giuseppe Morelli Rome Opera orchestra and chorus | VHS: Pickwick Cat: |
| 1947 | Lucienne Jourfier Raymond Amade Roger Bourdin Louis Musy Roger Bussonnet | André Cluytens Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique orchestra and chorus (sung in French) | VHS: Codo-Cinéma Cat: |
| 1959 | Erika Köth Fritz Wunderlich Hermann Prey Max Proebstl Hans Hotter | Joseph Keilberth Bavarian State Opera orchestra and chorus (sung in German) | VHS: Legato Classics Cat: |
| 1972 | Teresa Berganza Luigi Alva Hermann Prey Enzo Dara Paolo Montarsolo | Claudio Abbado Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus (Film directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, based on his staging at La Scala) | VHS: Deutsche Grammophon DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Streaming HD video: Carnegie Hall+ |
| 1982 | Maria Ewing Max René Cossotti John Rawnsley Claudio Desderi Ferruccio Furlanetto | Sylvain Cambreling Glyndebourne Festival orchestra and chorus | VHS: Castle Cat: DVD: Warner Cat: |
| 1988 | Cecilia Bartoli David Kuebler Louis Quilico Carlos Feller Robert Lloyd | Gabriele Ferro Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Cologne Opera chorus | VHS: RCA Cat: DVD: Art Haus Musik Cat: |
| 1989 | Kathleen Battle Rockwell Blake Leo Nucci Enzo Dara Ferruccio Furlanetto | Ralf Weikert Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus | VHS: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: |
| 1992 | Jennifer Larmore Richard Croft David Malis Renato Capecchi Simone Alaimo | Alberto Zedda Netherlands Opera orchestra and chorus | DVD: Image Cat: |
| 2008 | Rinat Shaham Francesco Meli Roberto Frontali Bruno De Simone Giovanni Furlanetto | Antonino Fogliani Teatro La Fenice orchestra and chorus | DVD: Dynamic Cat: 33597 |
| 2009 | Joyce DiDonato Juan Diego Flórez Pietro Spagnoli Alessandro Corbelli Ferruccio Furlanetto | Antonio Pappano Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus | Blu-ray: Erato DVD: Virgin Classics |
| 2014 | Isabel Leonard Lawrence Brownlee Christopher Maltman Maurizio Muraro Paata Burchuladze | Michele Mariotti Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus (Recorded live, 22 November 2014; production: Bartlett Sher) | Streaming HD video: Met Opera on Demand |
| 2016 | Danielle de Niese Taylor Stayton Björn Bürger Alessandro Corbelli Christophoros Stamboglis | Enrique Mazzola London Philharmonic Orchestra (recorded live, 21 June 2016, Glyndebourne Festival; stage director: Annabel Arden) | Blu-ray/DVD: Opus Arte Streaming HD video: Glyndebourne Encore |
| 2018 | Nino Machaidze Dmitry Korchak Leo Nucci Carlo Lepore Ferruccio Furlanetto | Daniel Oren Arena di Verona orchestra and chorus | Blu-ray/DVD: Bel Air |
| 2019 | Catherine Trottmann Michele Angelini Florian Sempey Peter Kálmán Robert Gleadow | Jérémie Rhorer Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, (Laurent Pelly, stage director) | Blu-ray/DVD: Naxos Cat:2110592 |