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Il barbiere di Siviglia, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ; music, Gioacchino Rossini ; edited by Patricia B. Brauner ; libretto, Cesare Sterbini ; after Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais' Le barbier de Seville ; produced by Frances Whitaker ; directed for the screen by David Stevens ; directed for the stage by Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier ; a Royal Opera production

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Il barbiere di Siviglia

Recorded in performance July 2009, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Taken from performances in July 2009 at London's Royal Opera House, this DVD sees Joyce DiDonato perform her role in a wheelchair after she broke her fibula during an earlier show

from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ; music, Gioacchino Rossini ; edited by Patricia B. Brauner ; libretto, Cesare Sterbini ; after Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais' Le barbier de Seville ; produced by Frances Whitaker ; directed for the screen by David Stevens ; directed for the stage by Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier ; a Royal Opera production

Joyce DiDonato (Rosina) ; Juan Diego Florez (Count Almaviva) ; Pietro Spagnoli (Figaro) ; Alessandro Corbelli (Doctor Bartolo) ; Ferruccio Furlanetto (Don Basilio) ; Covent Garden Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra ; Antonio Pappano, conductorFigaro, the title character, is a matchmaker and man about town as well as a barber. He devises a way to get Rosina to marry Almaviva instead of her guardian, to whom she is already engaged

Disc 1. Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act 1 ; bonus, pt. 1 -- disc 2. Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act 2 ; bonus, pt. 2

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