Luciana Serra - optional soprano aira - Il Barbiere di Siviglia - 1992

[lehar]

This is not composed to the "Barber", but does also appear in "Torvaldo e Dorliska" from 1815. I wonder if it not also is sung in "La Gazzetta". A typical example of Rossini's "recirculation" of music...

[noobsandwich]

what is the title of this aria?

[leporello56]

Were does this come in the opera

[MrLupo23]

che brava!!!

[Wotan123456789]

She sounds good here, although not at her very best.

I love Devia doing this!

[semiramide1945]

Coloraturafan- is this lifted from another Rossini opera? If so, which one if you know? I know it was common for composers to write arias for specific singers who liked to insert them in operas

[barryfifeful]

Thanks so much for this (and so much else on your channel). Have you ever come across recording of Serra in Il Turco in Italia - I heard it over 10 years ago as a radio broadcast (I think from Zurich or Basel) and she was, as always, fantastic (along with Alaimo, Pratico and Gimenez)

[brolobear]

I'm pretty sure that Sills sang this aria on her complete recording of Barbiere. Not sure if she sang it when she performed the opera on PBS.

[leprincebeaumont]

Coloraturafan, I love You!

[sevoflurane]

thanks for sharing! i love this otional aria. where did she sing this?

[coloraturafan]

Madrid