The Metropolitan Opera: The Barber of Seville (2025)
• May 31st, 2025 • 3h 35min
Music
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Ermione
Released on: 1995-06-03
Music
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
Puccini: La Boheme
Released on: 1982-01-01
Music
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
Adams: Doctor Atomic
Released on: 2008-08-11
Music
John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one...
Carmen
Released on: 2002-07-25
Music
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
L’Italiana in Algeri
Released on: 1987-12-01
Music
Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...
Die Walküre
Released on: 1990-02-23
Music, Drama
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried
Released on: 1990-02-23
Music
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
The Metropolitan Opera: Aida
Released on: 2012-12-15
Music
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
Aida - San Francisco Opera
Released on: 1981-12-31
Music
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Released on: 1981-08-24
Music
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
Verdi: Attila
Released on: 2018-12-07
Music
First staged at the Teatro La Fenice in 1846, Verdi’s ninth opera, Attila, returns to the stage of L...
Rodelinda
Released on: 2017-03-24
Music, Drama
Claus Guth's exciting 2017 staging of Handel’s "Rodelinda" at Madrid’s Teatro Real, featuring Lucy C...
Les Brigands
Released on: 2022-03-05
Music
“Everyone steals according to one’s position in society.” A social critique, a credo to live by, and...
Carmen
Released on: 2014-06-30
Music
High Definition recording June 2014, Arena di Verona. This opulent production was directed by Franc...
La Traviata - The Met
Released on: 1981-03-28
Music, Romance, Drama
James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fre...
Le Nozze di Figaro
Released on: 1998-11-11
Music
The Met assembled a vocal dream team for Jonathan Miller’s stylish production of the eternal Mozart ...
Lohengrin
Released on: 1986-01-10
Music
Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just wh...
Tosca
Released on: 1978-11-27
Music
A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the ...
Faust
Released on: 1985-06-01
Music, Fantasy, Horror
In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and tries to save Marguerite ...
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Released on: 2006-05-15
Music
Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus crea...