Libretto by Cesare Sterbini based on the comedy by P. Beaumarchais

Count Almaviva            Ivan Kozlovsky

Figaro                           Ivan Burlak

Rosina                         Vera Firsova

Don Basilio                   Mark Reizen

Doctor Bartolo      Vladimir Malyshev

Fiorello                     Mikhail Skazin

Berta                    Nina Ostroumova

Officer                    Ivan Manshavin

Soloists of the Bolshoi Theater. Choir and orchestra of All-Union Radio

Concertmaster - Pyotr Nikitin, solo harp - Olga Erdeli

Conductor - Samuel Samosud

Recorded in 1951

CD1

  1. Overture

Act 1 Scene 1

  2. Scene (Fiorello, Almaviva, chorus)

  3. Almaviva’s cavatina

  4. Recitative and stretta (Almaviva, Fiorello, Figaro, chorus)

  5. Figaro’s cavatina

  6. Recitative (Figaro, Almaviva, Rosina, Bartolo)

  7. Almaviva’s canzone

  8. Recitative and duet (Figaro and Almaviva)

Scene 2

  9. Rosina’s cavatina

10. Recitative (Rosina, Figaro, Bartolo, Basilio)

11. Don Basilio’s aria

12. Recitative (Basilio, Bartolo)

13. Recitative and Duet (Figaro and Rosina)

CD2

  1. Recitative (Rosina, Bartolo, Berta, Almaviva)

  2. Finale (Almaviva, Bartolo, Rosina, Berta, Basilio, Figaro, officer, chorus)

Act 2. Scene 1

   3. Duettino (Almaviva and Bartolo)

   4. Recitative (Almaviva, Bartolo, Rosina)

   5. Rosina’s aria

   6. Recitative (Almaviva, Rosina, Bartolo) and Bartolo’s arietta

   7. Recitative (Bartolo, Figaro, Almaviva)

   8. Quintet (Rosina, Almaviva, Figaro, Bartolo, Basilio)

   9. Recitative and Berta’s aria

Scene 2

10. Recitative (Bartolo, Basilio, Rosina)

11. Storm

12. Recitative and trio (Figaro, Almaviva, Rosina)

13. Recitative (Figaro, Almaviva, Basilio, Rosina, Bartolo, officer)

14. Recitative and finale (Bartolo, Figaro, Basilio, Almaviva, Rosina, Berta)