Now that the hardcover edition of the legendary recording of Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia” conducted by Claudio Abbado is out of print, the set is released in new packaging as a capbox. A Pure Audio Blu-ray (24 bit/96 kHz) + DVD + 2 CDs present Claudio Abbado’s 1971 recording of Rossini’s opera with the London Symphony Orchestra and a cast led by Hermann Prey, Teresa Berganza and Luigi Alva.

Also included is the studio production of a 1972 Milan production on DVD video with an almost identical cast; staging, direction, set and costume design by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. The 28-page booklet (English and German) contains a synopsis and essays by Alan Blyth, Bernd Feuchtner and Philip Gosset.