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Gioachino Rossini
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA {THE BARBER OF SEVILLE]

Giacomo Sagripanti

Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Aigul Akhmetshina, Jack Swanson), Peter Kálmán, Alexander Vinogradov

New Production/Met Premiere - Recorded May 2025

JOHN KEATS
“On the Grasshopper and Cricket”

The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead
In summer luxury,—he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.

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Written on December 30, 1816