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Recorded at the Met. Screened at the LPCA!

Met Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with Rossini’s effervescent comedy. Captured live on the Met stage May 31 and screened at LPCA on June 7. 

Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Approx. Runtime: 3 hrs, 35 mins with one intermission