Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Saturday, January 17, 2026, 1:00PM

Tickets are $30
$25 for Four Arts Members
$15 for students with ID

Gioachino Rossini
3 hours, 33 minutes with one intermission (previously recorded)

Rossini’s comedy features Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina 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 in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production.

Tickets

Four Arts members
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Public
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November 3: Public may purchase or reserve Four Arts programs.

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