Name: Il barbiere di Siviglia Rossini
Uploaded: 2022-05-05T05:49:00.000Z
Description: Beyond haircuts and beard trims, this canny barber is the city’s matchmaking maestro!Almaviva is wealthy, stealthy and head over heels. Rosina is witty, pret...

Company

Singer

Tenor

Nicholas Jones

The Count of Almaviva

John Longmuir

Bass

Andrew Moran

Doctor Bartolo

Michael Lampard

Mezzo-soprano

Cathy-Di Zhang

Rosina

Baritone

Andrew Williams

Figaro

Shane Lowrencev

Don Basilio

Soprano

Jennifer Black

Berta

Dominica Matthews

Fiorello

Sydney City

Australia

Opera Australia

Luke Spicer

Conductor

Stage director

Priscilla Jackman

Costume designer

Sabina Myers

Set designer

Michael Scott-Mitchell

Chorus master

Simon Bruckard

Canberra

Canberra Theatre

Italian

Il barbiere di Siviglia - The Barber of Seville

Il barbiere di Siviglia Rossini

Public

Opera

The Barber of Seville

English

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Beyond haircuts and beard trims, this canny barber is the city’s matchmaking maestro!Almaviva is wealthy, stealthy and head over heels. Rosina is witty, pret...

Beyond haircuts and beard trims, this canny barber is the city’s matchmaking maestro!
Almaviva is wealthy, stealthy and head over heels. Rosina is witty, pretty and just as smitten. She’s also inconveniently betrothed. They need a plan. Time to call on: Fi-ga-ro! Figaro! Figaro!

The stage is set for comic chaos. Our enterprising barber Figaro has wits and tricks as sharp as his razors. It takes all of his clever disguises, subterfuge and scheming to wrangle a romantic encounter for the would-be lovers.

The Barber of Seville fizzes and pops with lyrical acrobatics and irrepressibly funny characters. Rossini’s most famous ‘opera buffa’ is a musical masterpiece with a storyline that would be equally at home in a Hollywood rom-com. Opera Australia’s finest voices and a live orchestra deliver a score that is instantly familiar from renditions in movies, cartoons and commercials. Here, the frothy humour is intoxicating and the chorus revels in every uproarious escapade.

Delight in a riotous romp along the road to true love! This is opera at its light-hearted, effervescent best.

The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini, From Opera Australia (2022/2022), Directed by Priscilla Jackman,, Conductor Luke Spicer

Credits (Cast & Crew)

Opera Australia

Luke Spicer

Priscilla Jackman

Cast

Nicholas Jones

John Longmuir

Andrew Moran

Michael Lampard

Cathy-Di Zhang

Andrew Williams

Shane Lowrencev

Jennifer Black

Dominica Matthews

Shane Lowrencev

Crew

Sabina Myers

Michael Scott-Mitchell

Simon Bruckard

Program, About & Synopsis

Videos 1

Photos 1

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues 28