Opera Australia National Tour 2022: Barber of Seville
The Age
Composed by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Giovanni Paisello
Conductor: Luke Spiers
Director: Priscilla Jackman
Set Designer: Michael Scott-Mitchell
Costume Designer: Sabina Myers
Lighting Designer: Morgan Moroney
Production photographer: Jeff Busby
Rehearsal photographer: Phil Erbacher
Cast: Esther Song, Cathy-Di Zhang, Nicholas Jones, John Longmuir, Haotian Qi, Andrew Williams, Andrew Moran, Michael Lampard, Shane Lowrencev, David King, Jennifer Black, Dominica Matthews
Date: July – September 2022
About the project:
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.
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