This is a partial discography of The Barber of Seville, an opera by Gioachino Rossini. The work was first performed on 20 February 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.

Audio recordings

Year	Cast: Rosina Count Almaviva Figaro Dr. Bartolo Don Basilio	Conductor, Opera house and orchestra	Label^[1]
1919	Malvina Pereira Edoardo Taliani Ernesto Badini Abele Carnevali Umberto di Lelio	Carlo Sabajno Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: HMV Cat: 5110-5138
1950	Giulietta Simionato Luigi Infantino Giuseppe Taddei Carlo Badioli Antonio Cassinelli	Fernando Previtali Coro e Orchestra della Rai di Milano	CD: Warner Fonit Cat: 5046 71224-2
1954	Antonietta Pastori Nicola Monti Rolando Panerai Marcello Cortis Franco Calabrese	Carlo Maria Giulini RAI National Symphony Orchestra	CD: Great Opera Performances Cat: G.O.P. 66.104
1957	Giulietta Simionato Alvinio Misciano Ettore Bastianini Fernando Corena Cesare Siepi	Alberto Erede Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra and chorus	CD: Decca Records Cat: 467 4112
1957	Maria Callas Luigi Alva Tito Gobbi Fritz Ollendorf Nicola Zaccaria	Alceo Galliera Philharmonia Orchestra and chorus	CD: EMI Classics Cat: 3920462
1958	Roberta Peters Cesare Valletti Robert Merrill Fernando Corena Giorgio Tozzi	Erich Leinsdorf Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus (An unusual performance with no cuts)	LP: RCA Victor Cat: LSC-6143 CD: RCA Victor Cat: 09026-68552-2
1959	Graziella Sciutti Nicola Monti Rolando Panerai Renato Capecchi Mario Petri	Renato Fasano Collegium Musicum Italicum	CD: Walhall
1963	Victoria de los Ángeles Luigi Alva Sesto Bruscantini Ian Wallace Carlo Cava	Vittorio Gui Glyndebourne Festival orchestra and chorus	CD: EMI Classics Cat: CMS 7 64162 2
1964	Teresa Berganza Ugo Benelli Manuel Ausensi Fernando Corena Nicolai Ghiaurov	Silvio Varviso Orchestra Rossini di Napoli and chorus	CD: Decca Records Cat: 452 5912
1971	Teresa Berganza Luigi Alva Hermann Prey Enzo Dara Paolo Montarsolo	Claudio Abbado London Symphony Orchestra Ambrosian Singers	CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 457 7332
1974	Beverly Sills Nicolai Gedda Sherrill Milnes Renato Capecchi Ruggero Raimondi	James Levine London Symphony Orchestra John Alldis Choir	CD: EMI Classics Cat: 7243-5-85523 Cat: 3932762
1982	Marilyn Horne Paolo Barbacini Leo Nucci Enzo Dara Samuel Ramey	Riccardo Chailly Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: Fonit Cetra Cat: CDC 30 CD: Warner Fonit Cat: 3984 29187-2
1985	Agnes Baltsa Francisco Araiza Thomas Allen Domenico Trimarchi Robert Lloyd	Neville Marriner Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Ambrosian singers	CD: Philips Cat: 446 448-2 CD: Decca Records Cat: 470 434-2
1987	Luciana Serra Rockwell Blake Bruno Pola Enzo Dara Paolo Montarsolo	Bruno Campanella Teatro Regio di Torino orchestra and chorus (recorded in June)	CD: Nuova Era Cat: 223299
1988	Cecilia Bartoli William Matteuzzi Leo Nucci Enrico Fissore Paata Burchuladze	Giuseppe Patanè Teatro Comunale di Bologna orchestra and chorus	CD: Decca Records Cat: 425 520-2
1992	Sonia Ganassi Roberto Servile Ramon Vargas Angelo Romero Franco De Grandis	Will Humburg Failoni Chamber Orchestra and Hungarian Radio Chorus	CD: Naxos Cat: 8.660027-29
1992	Kathleen Battle Frank Lopardo Plácido Domingo Lucio Gallo Ruggero Raimondi	Claudio Abbado Chamber Orchestra of Europe and chorus	CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 435 763-2GH2
1993	Suzanne Mentzer Jerry Hadley Thomas Hampson Bruno Pratico Samuel Ramey	Gianluigi Gelmetti Orchestra della Toscana	CD: EMI Cat: 54863 2
1993	Jennifer Larmore Rual Gimenez Håkan Hagegård Alessandro Corbelli Samuel Ramey	Jesús López Cobos Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Grand-Théâtre de Genève	CD: Teldec Cat: 9031-74885-2
1995	Della Jones, Bruce Ford, Alan Opie Andrew Shore Peter Rose	Gabrielle Bellini English National Opera orchestra and chorus	CD: Chandos Records Cat: Chan3025
1997	Edita Gruberová Juan Diego Flórez Vladimir Chernov Enric Serra Francesco Ellero d'Artegna	Ralf Weikert Munich Radio Orchestra and chorus	CD: Nightingale Classics Cat: NC 004022

Video recordings

Year	Cast: Rosina Almaviva Figaro Dr. Bartolo Don Basilio	Conductor, Opera house and orchestra	Label
1946	Nelly Corradi Ferruccio Tagliavini Tito Gobbi Vito de Taranto Italo Tajo	Giuseppe Morelli Rome Opera orchestra and chorus	VHS: Pickwick Cat:
1947	Lucienne Jourfier Raymond Amade Roger Bourdin Louis Musy Roger Bussonnet	André Cluytens Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique orchestra and chorus (sung in French)	VHS: Codo-Cinéma Cat:
1959	Erika Köth Fritz Wunderlich Hermann Prey Max Proebstl Hans Hotter	Joseph Keilberth Bavarian State opera orchestra and chorus (sung in German)	VHS: Legato Classics Cat:
1972	Teresa Berganza Luigi Alva Hermann Prey Enzo Dara Paolo Montarsolo	Claudio Abbado Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	VHS: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat:
1982	Maria Ewing Max René Cossotti John Rawnsley Claudio Desderi Ferruccio Furlanetto	Sylvain Cambreling Glyndebourne Festival orchestra and chorus	VHS: Castle Cat: DVD: Warner Cat:
1988	Cecilia Bartoli David Kuebler Louis Quilico Carlos Feller Robert Lloyd	Gabriele Ferro Stuttgart Radio Symphony orchestra Cologne Opera chorus	VHS: RCA Cat: DVD: Art Haus Musik Cat:
1989	Kathleen Battle Rockwell Blake Leo Nucci Enzo Dara Ferruccio Furlanetto	Ralf Weikert Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus	VHS: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat:
1992	Jennifer Larmore Richard Croft David Malis Renato Capecchi Simone Alaimo	Alberto Zedda Netherlands Opera orchestra and chorus	DVD: Image Cat:
2008	Rinat Shaham Francesco Meli Roberto Frontali	Antonino Fogliani Teatro La Fenice orchestra and chorus	DVD: Dynamic Cat: 33597
2010	Joyce DiDonato Juan Diego Flórez Pietro Spagnoli Alessandro Corbelli Ferruccio Furlanetto	Antonio Pappano Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus	DVD: Virgin Classics Cat:
2019	Catherine Trottmann Michele Angelini, Florian Sempey	Jérémie Rhorer Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Laurent Pelly, stage director	DVD:Naxos Cat:2110592

References

Notes

^ Recordings of Barber on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk

Sources

Burton D. Fisher's The Barber of Seville (Opera Classics Library Series)

Pierre Beaumarchais's Figaro Trilogy

The Barber of Seville

Stage	Il barbiere di Siviglia (Paisiello, 1782 opera) The Barber of Seville (Rossini, 1816 opera)
Music	"Largo al factotum" The Barber of Seville discography
Film	The Barber of Seville (1904) The Barber of Seville (1938) The Barber of Seville (1947) Le Barbier de Séville (1948) Adventures of the Barber of Seville (1954)
Animation	Our Gang Follies of 1938 The Barber of Seville (Woody Woodpecker, 1944) Rabbit of Seville (Bugs Bunny, 1950) Magical Maestro (1952) The Cat Above and the Mouse Below (Tom and Jerry, 1964)
Related	"The Barber" (1993)

The Marriage of Figaro

Stage	The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart, 1786 opera) The Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro (2004 musical)
Music	"Se vuol ballare" "Non più andrai" "Sull'aria...che soave zeffiretto" The Marriage of Figaro discography
Film	The Marriage of Figaro (1920) Figaro (1929) The Marriage of Figaro (1949) The Marriage of Figaro (1960)
Related	Fantasy on Themes from Mozart's Figaro and Don Giovanni (Liszt)

The Guilty Mother

Opera	La mère coupable (Milhaud, 1966) The Ghosts of Versailles (Corigliano, 1991)

Opera	I due Figaro (Carafa, 1820) I due Figaro (Mercadante, 1835) Figaro läßt sich scheiden (Klebe, 1963) The Abduction of Figaro (Schickele, 1984) Figaro Gets a Divorce (Langer, 2016)

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List of compositions List of operas
Operas	Demetrio e Polibio (1812) La cambiale di matrimonio (1810) L'equivoco stravagante (1811) L'inganno felice (1812) Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare (1812) La scala di seta (1812) La pietra del paragone (1812) L'occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia (1812) Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo (1813) Tancredi (1813) L'italiana in Algeri (1813) Aureliano in Palmira (1813) Il turco in Italia (1814) Sigismondo (1814) Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (1815) Torvaldo e Dorliska (1815) Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione (1816) La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso (1816) Otello, ossia Il Moro di Venezia (1816) La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (1817) La gazza ladra (1817) Armida (1817) Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia (1817) Mosè in Egitto (1818) Adina, ossia Il califfo di Bagdad (1826) Ricciardo e Zoraide (1818) Ermione (1819) Eduardo e Cristina (1819) La donna del lago (1819) Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre (1819) Maometto II (1820) Matilde di Shabran, ossia Bellezza e Cuor di Ferro (1821) Zelmira (1822) Semiramide (1823) Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del Giglio d'Oro (1825) Le siège de Corinthe (1826) Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la mer rouge (1827) Le comte Ory (1828) Guillaume Tell (1829) Ugo, re d'Italia (unfinished)
Pastiches	Ivanhoé (1826) Robert Bruce (1846)
Arias from operas	"Ecco, ridente in cielo" "Largo al factotum" "Sombre forêt" "Una voce poco fa"
Sacred music	Messa di Gloria (1820) Stabat mater (1831, 1841) Petite messe solennelle (1864, 1867)
Other works	Six string sonatas (1804) La regata veneziana La Danza (1835) Péchés de vieillesse (1857–1868)
Discographies	The Barber of Seville William Tell
Film adaptations	The Barber of Seville (1947 film)
Cultural depictions	Rossini (1942 biographical film) Rossini! Rossini! (1991 biographical film) Rossini's Ghost (1996 film)
Named for Rossini	Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini" Prix Rossini Rossini Opera Festival Rossini in Wildbad
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