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Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia
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Classical Music, Opera, Theatre
The Met: Live In HD At Müpa Budapest
The final Met broadcast of the 2024/25 season revisits Bartlett Sher's sparklingly alive Rossini production, this time conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, who trained in the composer's native Pesaro. Taking the stage as the temperamental Rosina will be the Russian Aigul Akhmetshina, a tremendous discovery of recent years, joined not only by the young American tenor Jack Swanson as he makes his Met debut as Almaviva, but also by Moldova's Andrey Zhilikhovsky as the manly Figaro and, to our proud delight, our fellow Hungarian Péter Kálmán, who will be taking on Doctor Bartolo.
The broadcast will be sung in the original language, and shown with Hungarian and English subtitles.
Program and cast
Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti
Performers:
Countess Rosina: Aigul Akhmetshina
Count Almaviva: Jack Swanson
Figaro: Andrey Zhilikhovsky
Bartolo: Péter Kálmán
Don Basilio: Alexander Vinogradov
Featuring: The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Creators:
set design: Michael Yeargan
costumes: Catherine Zuber
lighting: Christopher Akerlind
director: Bartlett Sher
Palace of Arts Müpa Budapest
When Müpa Budapest, Hungary and its capital's new cultural hub, opened in 2005, it was built to represent more than 100 years of Hungarian cultural history. As a conglomeration of cultural venues, the building has no precedent in 20th century Hungarian architecture and has no peers in the whole of Central Europe.
The creators of this ambitious project, the Trigránit Development Corporation, prime contractor Arcadom Construction and the Zoboki, Demeter and Partners Architectural Office, were driven by the desire to create a new European cultural citadel as part of the new Millennium City Centre complex along the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Danube waterfront. The result is a facility whose construction quality, appearance, functionality and 21st century technological infrastructure makes it ideally suited to productions of the highest standard. The building is also highly versatile and equipped to host performances of any genre and almost any scale.
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