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Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

2 CD, Import, CD-ROM

Callas (Artist), Gobbi (Artist), Alva (Artist), Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2007 Digital Remaster): Sinfonia (Orchestra)
2 Act One, Scene One: Piano, pianissimo, senza parlar (Fiorello/Coro/Conte)
3 Act One, Scene One: Ecco ridente in cielo (Conte)
4 Act One, Scene One: Ehi, Fiorelli?...Mio signore (Conte/Fiorello/Coro)
5 Act One, Scene One: Mille grazie, mio signore (Conte/Fiorello/Coro)
6 Act One, Scene One: Recitativo:Gente indiscreta! (Conte/Fiorello/Figaro)
7 Act One, Scene One: La ran la le ra...Largo al factotum (Figaro)
8 Act One, Scene One: Recitativo: Ah, che bella vita! (Figaro/Conte)
9 Act One, Scene One: Se il mio nome saper voi bramate (Conte/Rosina/Figaro)
10 Act One, Scene One: Recitativo: Oh cielo!...Nella stanza convien (Conte/Figaro)
11 Act One, Scene One: All'idea di quel metallo (Conte/Figaro)
12 Act One, Scene One: Piano, piano...un 'altra idea! (Conte/Figaro)
13 Act One, Scene One: Oh, il meglio mi scordavo (Conte/Figaro)
14 Act One, Scene One: Ah, che d'amore la fiamma io sento (Conte/Figaro)
15 Act One, Scene Two: Una voce poco fa (Rosina)
16 Act One, Scene Two: Recitativo: Sì, sì, la vincerò (Rosina/Figaro)
17 Act One, Scene Two: Recitativo: Ah, disgraziato Figaro! (Bartolo/Rosina/Berta/Ambrogio)
18 Act One, Scene Two: Recitativo: Ah! Barbiere d'inferno (Bartolo/Basilio)
19 Act One, Scene Two: La calunnia è un venticello (Basilio)
20 Act One, Scene Two: Recitativo: Ah! Che ne dite? (Basilio/Bartolo)
21 Act One, Scene Two: Recitativo: Ma bravi! Ma benone! (Figaro/Rosina)
22 Act One, Scene Two: Dunque io son (Figaro/Rosina)
23 Act One, Scene Two: Fortunati affetti miei (Figaro/Rosina)
24 Act One, Scene Two: Recitativo: Ora mi sento meglio (Rosina/Bartolo)
25 Act One, Scene Two: A un dottor della mia sorte (Bartolo)

Disc: 2

1 Act One, Scene Two: Finora in questa camera (Berta/Conte)
2 Act One, Scene Two: Ehi, di casa, buona gente (Conte/Bartolo)
3 Act One, Scene Two: Ah, venisse, il caro oggetto (Conte/Bartolo/Rosina)
4 Act One, Scene Two: Dunque, lei vuol battaglia? (Conte/Bartolo/Rosina/Berta/Basilio/Figaro)
5 Act One, Scene Two: Che cosa accadde (Figaro/Bartolo/Conte/Rosina/Berta/Basilio/Coro)
6 Act One, Scene Two: Fermi tutti. Nessun si mova (Coro/Bartolo/Figaro/Basilio/Conte/Berta/Rosina/Ufficiale)
7 Act One, Scene Two: Fredda ed immobile (Rosina/Conte/Bartolo/Figaro/Basilio/Berta)
8 Act One, Scene Two: Ma signor...ma un dottor (Bartolo/Coro/Berta/Basilio/Rosina/Conte/Figaro)
9 Act Two: Recitativo: Ma vedi il mio destino! (Bartolo)
10 Act Two: Pace e gioia sia con voi (Conte/Bartolo)
11 Act Two: Recitativo: Insomma, mio signore (Bartolo/Conte)
12 Act Two: Recitativo: Venite, signorina (Bartolo/Rosina/Conte)
13 Act Two: Contro un chor che accende amore (Rosina/Conte)
14 Act Two: Recitativo: Bella voce! Bravissima! (Conte/Rosina/Bartolo)
15 Act Two: Quando mi sei vicina (Bartolo)
16 Act Two: Recitativo: Bravo, signor barbiere (Bartolo/Figaro/Rosina/Conte)
17 Act Two: Don Basilio!...Cosa veggo! (Rosina/Conte/Figaro/Bartolo/Basilio)
18 Act Two: Buona sera, mio signore (Rosina/Conte/Figaro/Bartolo/Basilio)
19 Act Two: Orsù, Signor Don Bartolo (Figaro/Bartolo/Conte/Rosina)
20 Act Two: Che vecchio sospettoso! (Berta)
21 Act Two: Il vecchiotto cerca moglie (Berta)
22 Act Two: Temporale/Thunderstorm/Gewittermusik/Orage (Orchestra)
23 Act Two: Recitativo: Alfine eccoci qua (Figaro/Conte/Rosina)
24 Act Two: Ah, qual colpo inaspettato! (Figaro/Conte/Rosina)
25 Act Two: Zitti, zitti, piano, piano (Figaro/Conte/Rosina)
26 Act Two: Recitativo: Ah, disgraziati noi! (Figaro/Conte/Rosina/Basilio/Bartolo/Ufficiale)
27 Act Two: Recitativo: Insomma io ho tutti i torti (Bartolo/Figaro/Basilio/Conte/Rosina)
28 Act Two: Di sì felice innesto (Figaro/Berta/Bartolo/Basilio/Coro/Rosina/Conte)

Disc: 3

1 Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Libretto
2 Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Synopsis

Editorial Reviews

"This is one Callas set where the prima donna doesn't by any means dominate. Gobbi's quick-witted, fast-speaking Figaro is the pivot of the action, mercurial in fioriture and constantly alive to action and reaction. Who wouldn't be spellbound by the seductive fresh sounds of the young Alva's Count? Listen to all three in the Second Act trio, and if you can remember hearing it better done, I'll eat my critical hat."

Synopsis

The quintessential Italian comic opera, Il barbiere di Siviglia is based on the French play by Beaumarchais and presents several characters who also appear in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. The barber of Seville is Figaro, who introduces himself in the hyperactive aria `Largo al factotum'. His resourcefulness is put to the test by Count Almaviva, who has fallen in love with the spirited Rosina. She is the closely guarded ward of Dr Bartolo, who has plans to make her his wife. By means of disguise and subterfuge, Almaviva finds his way into Bartolo's house and by the end of the opera has married Rosina.

The spirit of knife-edge intrigue is immediately evoked in the opera's overture, while further famous numbers include Rosina's `Una voce poco fa', displaying both the sweet and wilful sides of her character, and `Contro un cor', which she sings in a music lesson to her supposed music teacher - in fact Almaviva in disguise. Her real music teacher is Don Basilio whose aria `La calunnia' suggests gossip as the ideal way of ruining Almaviva's reputation. It provides a perfect example of the trademark `Rossini crescendo', building from a whisper to a cannonade.

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.46 x 5.83 x 0.94 inches; 6.84 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Warner Classics
  • SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ ADD
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 15, 2010
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Warner Classics
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0036D7Y0M
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3
  • Customer Reviews:
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T. Marshall
5.0 out of 5 stars I like it
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2013
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The Marriage of Figaro has been my fave, and I've always accepted what I've heard about the Rossini barber--emotionally light, maybe a little frantic. I am pleased to find it vivaciously over the top more than frantic, and musically remarkably inventive. Not the emotional depth of the Mozart, but then I wasn't expecting that.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not the recording I was after
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2013
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This is close but not the exact recording I was after. Apparently EMI's recording of this opera on vinyl and on CD have some differences in some tracks.
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Andrei Rapaport
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2016
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Michel Heller
4.0 out of 5 stars Remastering issues
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2010
Rossini's Il Barbiere by Gobbi, Callas, Alva and Zaccaria is one of my favorite records. I bought the 2007 remastering with the hope that it would be better than the previous ones issued by EMI. It is not the case, it is just different. The sound is drier, clearer, thinner, cleaner and has more bite. But the thinning takes away some of the roundness of sound, some of the power of the voices, and some of the beauty of the sound. It is therefore not a necessary bye for those who already posses the older mastering in which the sound was too round with a lack of bite. For the ones who do not possess this record, it remains an absolute must. It is such a pity that remastering is still so much less good than what LPs could offer. But I guess this is a reality. I wander if by putting more musical information on a CD one could improve things?
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C. H. Robertson
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2017
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Fantastic recording I just love this..
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RG -TOMMY
5.0 out of 5 stars Au firmament des étoiles...
Reviewed in France on November 3, 2017
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... La version transcendants, éblouissante, époustouflante, jamais égalée du "Barbier" : Maris Callas, Tito Gobbi, Luigi Alva, le Philharmonia Orchestra sous la baguette de Alceo Galliera. Temps "béni" ou l'industrie du disque, en l'occurence ANGEL à Londres avait pour "Seigneur tout puissant" Walter Legge! La fine fleur du chant et de la musique se voyait partagée entre EMI et PHILIPS. Aujourd'hui, tout cela n'existe plus tel que nous l'avons connu à cette époque. EMI n'existe plus et est passé (hélas!) dans le giron d'UNIVERSAL. Consolons-nous puisque nous pouvons, encore, avec un site comme AMAZON retrouver les disques de notre jeunesse.
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Angelote
5.0 out of 5 stars Magnífica edición y presentación
Reviewed in Spain on October 25, 2016
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Una ópera bufa de entre las mejores y una edición con intérpretes difícilmente mejorables. La opción de Amazon Music me pareció impresionante
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il Mozartiano
5.0 out of 5 stars "Ma se mi toccano dov'è il mio debole..."
Reviewed in Italy on September 3, 2011
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...proprio così! In questa storica incisione dell'opera buffa per eccellenza non si può non avere un debole per l'esilarante coppia Tito Gobbi- Maria Callas! Per una volta, bando alle versioni filologicamente corrette (per quelle si veda la superba ed altrettanto storica incisione di Abbado con Hermann Prey, Teresa Berganza, Enzo Dara & co. -incisione che segnò l'inizio della "Rossini Renaissance"-); Alceo Galliera ci presenta un "Barbiere" che è puro divertimento, splendido esempio di quella "follia organizzata" tipicamente rossiniana, con una Philharmonia Orchestra in forma davvero smagliante.
Tito Gobbi è IL Figaro per antonomasia: raramente si è visto e sentito un cantante che abbia saputo fondere precisione canora e qualità attoriali quanto lui; la celebre cavatina "Largo al factotum" è sfavillante, e nel duetto con la Callas "Dunque io son, tu non m'inganni?" c'è una complicità eccezionale, a mio parere tuttora imbattuta: quando, nel tentativo di convincere Rosina a scrivere un biglietto a Lindoro, Figaro rimane gabbato dall'astuta giovane (che prontamente ne estrae uno scritto di suo pugno) ed esclama "Già era scritto? Ve' che bestia...il maestro faccio a lei?", sembra proprio di vederlo Gobbi, con quell'espressione stralunata e lo sguardo sbalordito che solo lui sapeva fare!
Quanto alla Callas, essendo la registrazione del 1957, si può dire che fosse ancora in un momento florido della sua carriera (il vero e triste declino inizierà negli anni Sessanta): sia nel sopracitato duetto che nella celeberrima "Una voce poco fa", l'inconfondibile timbro della Callas si abbandona a gorgheggi e giochi belcantistici sbalorditivi.
Il resto del cast annovera il classicissimo Conte d'Almaviva di Luigi Alva (presente nello stesso ruolo anche nell'incisione abbadiana), un notevole Nicola Zaccaria come Basilio (bella la sua "Calunnia") e la Berta di Gabriella Carturan (divertente in "Il vecchiotto cerca moglie"); volendo esser pignoli, l'unica nota stonata è il teutonico Bartolo di Fritz Ollendorff, dalla pronuncia marcatamente tedesca ma dalla tecnica più che buona.
Nel complesso, è questa un'incisione da avere, sia perché si tratta di un pilastro della tradizione operistica nostrana, sia perché accanto alla già lodata edizione Abbado/DGG figurerà nella vostra discoteca come alternativa di altissimo prestigio al rigore filologico.
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Sofia
5.0 out of 5 stars Barbier de Séville
Reviewed in France on September 2, 2018
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