The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the titular barber of Seville, with bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast.

Director: Bartlett Sher

Cast: Aigul Akhmetshina, Peter Kálmán, Jack Swanson, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Alexander Vinogradov, Jay Dunn, Anthony Roth Costanzo

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.