Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Opéra Bastille - from 02 February to 04 March 2016

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Opéra Bastille - from 02 February to 04 March 2016

3h05 with 1 interval

Language : Italian

About

In few words:

"To sharpen the mind of the most doleful of women and suddenly make her shrewd, all it takes is to lock her away and the deed is done."
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Act I, scene 11

“The Barber is one of the century's masterpieces”. These words were written by the very Berlioz who in his youth had denounced not only Rossini, but also the “fanaticism he aroused in the fashionable circles of Paris”. Accordingly, the compliment, “repeated until exhaustion” – the composer's own words – is all the greater. The work was so “brilliant” and “so finely orchestrated” that the “dilettanti of Rome”, enraged by the “slightest unforeseen innovation in melody, harmony, rhythm or instrumentation were ready to kill the young maestro”. Il Barbiere di Siviglia has been performed continually since its turbulent premiere on February 16th 1816.

The composer's opera buffa transcends the spirit of Beaumarchais’ comedy and combines the absurd with a touch of satirical realism in a score where rhythm and virtuosity place the comic effects in an ongoing dramatic narration. As a result, the characters – Rosina in particular – gain a new degree of realism and break with the usual archetypes.

Damiano Michieletto’s giddying production embraces this perpetual motion and carries in its wake the happy couple formed by Lawrence Brownlee and Pretty Yende.

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Opera Buffa in two acts (1816)

After Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
In Italian

Music :

Gioacchino Rossini

Libretto :

Cesare Sterbini

Conductor :

Giacomo Sagripanti

Director :

Damiano Michieletto

Set design :

Paolo Fantin

Costume design :

Silvia Aymonino

Lighting design :

Fabio Barettin

Chorus master :

Alessandro Di Stefano
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Original production from the Grand Théâtre de Genève

French and English surtitles
Il Conte d'Almaviva :

Lawrence Brownlee

Bartolo :

Nicola Alaimo

Rosina :

Pretty Yende

Figaro :

Alessio Arduini

Basilio :

Ildar Abdrazakov

Fiorello :

Pietro Di Bianco

Berta :

Anaïs Constans

Un Ufficiale :

Laurent Laberdesque

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