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the barber of seville
Gioacchino Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Opera Buffa in two acts (1816)
- Music
- Gioacchino Rossini
- Libretto
- Cesare Sterbini
- Conductor
- Riccardo Frizza
- Director
- Damiano Michieletto
- Il Conte d'Almaviva
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René Barbera
Levy Sekgapane
Levy Sekgapane - Bartolo
- Simone Del Savio
- Rosina
- Olga Kulchynska
- Figaro
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Massimo Cavalletti
Florian Sempey - Basilio
- Nicolas Testé
- Fiorello
- Pietro Di Bianco
- Berta
- Julie Boulianne
- Un ufficiale
- Olivier Ayault
- Set design
- Paolo Fantin
- Costume design
- Silvia Aymonino
- Lighting design
- Fabio Barettin
- Chorus master
- Alessandro Di Stefano
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
French and English surtitles
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With a single wave of my wand,I shall lull vigilance,awaken love,outwit jealousy,baffle intrigue and overcome all obstacles- Figaro, Le Barbier de Séville, Beaumarchais
A masterpiece of opera buffa, The Barber of Seville still enjoys the same success as it did at its first performance in 1816. Inspired by Beaumarchais’ play of the same name, Rossini remained faithful to the narrative simplicity of the play whilst portraying characters bubbling over to the relentless rhythm of the score. Overture and arias alike rapidly gained in notoriety. Damiano Michieletto’s frenetically vivid production alternates smoothly between picturesque realism and dreamlike fantasy in a single, monumental set making this Barber of Seville a wildly eccentric comedy with a ring of truth.
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