Organization

Conductor

Markus Henn

Costume designer

Luigi Perego

Set designer

Stage Design Adaption

Luca Filaci

Singer

Tenor

Hiroshi Amako

The Count of Almaviva

Angelo Pollak

Bass

Wolfgang Bankl

Doctor Bartolo

Mezzo-soprano

Patricia Nolz

Rosina

Isabel Signoret

Baritone

Michael Arivony

Figaro

Stefan Astakhov

Ilia Kazakov

Don Basilio

Soprano

Ileana Tonca

Berta

Aurora Marthens

Hans Peter Kammerer

An officer

Andy Hallwaxx

Ambrogio

Michele Mariotti

Stage director

Herbert Fritsch

Wiener Staatsoper

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Il barbiere di Siviglia -  (The Barber of Seville)

Vienna

Austria

Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa in 2 acts "Il barbiere di Siviglia" is one of the best known and most popular musical comedies worldwide and also has a long tradition of performances at the Vienna State Opera. Well over 400 times Günther Rennert's witty production has been on the program there in the last 55 years. Now the German actor, director and set designer Herbert Fritsch is staging the popular opera classic in a new way. He is considered a master of intelligent, ambiguous and radically demanding humor and has already put the audience in Vienna's Burgtheater to the test.

He has an excellent ensemble of singers at his disposal, which is also characterized by their love of acting. The celebrated bel canto tenor and Viennese Kammersänger Juan Diego Flórez mimics Count Almaviva and in this production is also allowed to perform the usually deleted large aria »Cessa di più resistere«. The only 27-year-old Russian Vasilisa Berzhanskaya makes her Viennese debut in the role of Rosina, while the Canadian Étienne Dupuis gives the extroverted barber a powerful voice and comedic ability. Paolo Bordogna, as Dr. Bartolo makes humorous and tragic attempts to marry his ward Rosina, and the audience's favorite Ildar Abdrazakov is in a good mood as the scheming music teacher Don Basilio. a mute,

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Public

The Barber of Seville

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading