Name: Il barbiere di Siviglia Rossini
Uploaded: 2023-04-10T11:38:40.000Z
Description: Our riotous production of The Barber of Seville is making its way around the country on its National Tour.Check out all the on-stage action in our new traile...

Company

Singer

Tenor

John Longmuir

The Count of Almaviva

Shanul Sharma

Bass

Andrew Moran

Doctor Bartolo

Michael Lampard

Mezzo-soprano

Cathy-Di Zhang

Rosina

Esther Song

Baritone

Andrew Williams

Figaro

Haotian Qi

Shane Lowrencev

Don Basilio

Steven Gallop

Soprano

Dominica Matthews

Berta

Sarah Sweeting

Fiorello

Sydney City

Australia

Opera Australia

Siro Battaglin

Conductor

Stage director

Priscilla Jackman

Costume designer

Sabina Myers

Set designer

Michael Scott-Mitchell

Chorus master

Simon Bruckard

Lighting designer

Morgan Moroney

Wangaratta

Performing Arts Centre

Geelong

Geelong Arts Centre

Goldfields Arts Centre

Margaret River

Margaret River HEART

Albany

Albany Entertainment Centre

Araluen Arts Centre

Tennant Creek Civic Center

St Joseph's Catholic College

Darwin Entertainment Centre

Cairns

Mackay

Mackay Entertainment & Convention Centre

Rockhampton

Pilbeam Theatre Rockhampton

Cleveland

Redland Performing Arts Centre

Goulburn

Goulburn Performing Arts Centre

Parramatta

Riverside Theatre

Opera Australia Chorus

Opera Australia Orchestra

Italian

Il barbiere di Siviglia - The Barber of Seville

Il barbiere di Siviglia Rossini

Public

Opera

The Barber of Seville

English

Approved

Our riotous production of The Barber of Seville is making its way around the country on its National Tour.Check out all the on-stage action in our new traile...

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 (2023/2023), Directed by Priscilla Jackman,, Conductor Siro Battaglin

Credits (Cast & Crew)

Opera Australia

Siro Battaglin

Priscilla Jackman

Cast

John Longmuir

Shanul Sharma

Andrew Moran

Michael Lampard

Cathy-Di Zhang

Esther Song

Andrew Williams

Haotian Qi

Shane Lowrencev

Steven Gallop

Dominica Matthews

Sarah Sweeting

Shane Lowrencev

Steven Gallop

Crew

Sabina Myers

Michael Scott-Mitchell

Simon Bruckard

Morgan Moroney

Ensemble

Opera Australia Chorus

Opera Australia Orchestra

Program, About & Synopsis

Videos 3

Photos 2

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues 18