IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA Rossini – Warsaw Chamber Opera

A passionate count enlists a local barber and jack-of-all-trades to help him woo and wed a quick-witted woman. But it will take all their cunning - as well as some disguises and bribes - to ensure love wins the day.

Rossini’s 1816 masterpiece is not only a work of sublime farce, but also a story of male friendship, class, the confrontations of generations and a young woman’s struggle for freedom. Warsaw Chamber Opera has entrusted their new production to Grzegorz Chrapkiewicz, the director, a pedagogue, a master, and a mentor who has shaped several generations of Polish opera singers. With an excellent cast led by Hubert Zapiór in the title role, Chrapkiewicz teases out all the elegance of Beaumarchais’s original play with the buffoonery of the Italian commedia dell’arte tradition - all within the intimacy of the Warsaw Chamber Opera with only 200 seats.

Full performance streamed on OperaVision from 23 January 2026 at 19:00 CET to 23 July 2026 at 12:00 CET: https://operavision.eu/performance/il...

CAST

Count Almaviva
Theodore Browne

Bartolo
Piotr Miciński

Rosina
Teresa Marut

Figaro
Hubert Zapiór

Don Basilio
Tomasz Kumięga

Berta
Elżbieta Wróblewska

Ambrogio
Marek Makowski

Fiorello / Officer
Łukasz Górczyński

Guitarist
Wojciech Niemotko

Pianoforte
Dorota Stawarska

Notary
Sebastian Piotrowicz

Dancers
Dawid Pieróg
Jakub Piotrowicz
Michał Góral
Krzysztof Tyszko

Orchestra
Period Instrument Orchestra of Warsaw Chamber Opera

Chorus
Choir of Warsaw Chamber Opera

Music
Gioachino Rossini

Text
Cesare Sterbini

Director
Grzegorz Chrapkiewicz

Conductor
Adam Banaszak

Sets
Wojciech Stefaniak

Costumes
Anna Chadaj

Choreography
Ewelina Adamska-Porczyk

Lights
Artur Wytrykus

Graphic projections
Jakub Psuja

Chorus master
Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz

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