I've been watching The Barber of Seville on PBS "Great Performances from the Met." I'm not crazy about Bartlet Sher's direction - he has an ugly set and doe the score enough - but the musioc is wonderful and funny. The three leads - Aigul Akhmetshina (Russian) as Rosina, Jack Swanson as Almaviva, and Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Russian) as Figaro - are quite wonderful and very funny. Jack Swanson is very funny in his disguises. The mezzo-soprano, attractive but no beauty, has an amazingly flexible voice for the coloratura role, and the two men are also quite good looking.