Effervescent Production of 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia' Comes to Met Live

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A scene from Rossini's “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” with Isabel Leonard (center) as Rosina. The opera will screen on Saturday, Nov. 22 for The Met: Live in HD.

• Tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Count Almaviva in Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.”
• Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as Rosina in Rossini's “The Barber of Seville.”

POTSDAM, NY (11/12/2014)(readMedia)-- The Met: Live in HD will bring an effervescent production of the classic Gioacomo Rossini comedy, "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" ("The Barber of Seville") to life in its next screening on Nov. 22.

The revival will bring together a feisty and formidable cast in Rossini's most popular opera.

The Met's vibrant production of the classic comedy -- featuring some of the most instantly recognizable melodies in all of opera -- stars Isabel Leonard as the feisty Rosina, Lawrence Brownlee as her conspiring flame and Christopher Maltman as the endlessly resourceful and charming barber. Michele Mariotti will conduct the vivid and tuneful score.

Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" will screen live from the Metropolitan Opera stage at 12:55 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22 at Potsdam's Roxy Theater. There will be an encore screening at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 23.

The opera will be performed in Italian, with English subtitles. The approximate running time is three hours, 25 minutes, including intermission.

The 2014-15 season of The Met: Live in HD is sponsored in the North Country by SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music and J.S. Cinemas.

All productions will be shown live worldwide on Saturdays. There will also be encore presentations offered on Sundays locally. Doors open a half-hour before show time, and there is immediate seating for advance ticket holders.

In The Met: Live in HD, robotic cameras, strategically placed around and behind the stage, capture the beauty and power of live performance from striking angles, and heighten attention to both performance and production. Intermission features and English subtitles bring the stories to life.

Tickets prices are the lowest available in the nation: $18 for an adult, $15 for senior citizens, $12 for students and $9 for youth age 18 and under.

Tickets are available by calling the Community Performance Series Box Office at (315) 267-2277, or visiting the Roxy Theater in downtown Potsdam, or the CPS Box Office, located in the lobby of SUNY Potsdam's Performing Arts Center. You can also reserve tickets online by visiting www.cpspotsdam.org.

For more information on the 2014-15 The Met: Live in HD season, visit the Metropolitan Opera website at www.metopera.org/hdlive.

For more information about SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music, please visit www.potsdam.edu/crane.

Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York's only All-Steinway institution.

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