A week in music: week 3

• Sunday
  Bellini's Bianca e Fernando, Hayashi, Savostano, Gabriele Ferro cond., Teatro Reggio Torino May 29, 1976


• Monday
  Verdi's Rigoletto








• Tuesday
  Méhul's Horatius Coclès (1794), Massard, Orliac, orchestre de l'ORTF, cond. Yves Prin, mid-1960s


• Wednesday
  Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, MET broadcast Nov.10 2006 with Juan Diego Flórez, Diana Damrau, Peter Mattei & Samuel Ramey, Maurizio Benini conducting


• Thursday
  Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Scala July 13 1999, JDF, Jennifer Larmore, Roberto Frontali, Giorgio Surian, Riccardo Chailly conducting


• Friday
  Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Macerata - Arena Sferisterio Agosto 1980, Ernesto Palacio, Leo Nucci, Marylin Horne, Cesare Siepi, Nicola Rescigno conducting

NB. Even if you are not a belcanto addict, you must admit "Largo al factotum" from Il Barbiere is one of the most difficult aria there is. Of the three versions above, Leo Nucci's interpretation is the only good one (also see this one).