Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868): Il Barbiere di Siviglia

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Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868): Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Opera buffa in two acts
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini based on the comedy by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.
Created in Rome in 1816

Musical direction: Jonathan Nott
Director: Sam Brown
Assistant director: Julien Chavaz
Scenography: Ralph Koltaï
Costumes: Sue Blane
Lighting: Linus Fellbom
Choreography: Morgann Runacre-Temple

Il Conte di Almaviva: Bogdan Mihai
Figaro: Bruno Taddia
Rosina: Lena Belkina
Bartolo: Bruno de Simone
Basilio: Marco Spotti
Berta: Mary Feminear
Fiorello: Rodrigo Garcia
Un Ufficiale: Aleksandar Chaveev
Ambrogio: Peter Baekeun Cho

Choir of the Grand Théâtre
Conductor Alan Woodbridge
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Le Barbier of Seville is Gioachino Rossini's best-known opera, with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini, created in 1816 and considered by many to be the masterpiece of Italian comic opera.

The story was taken from the comedy The Barber of Seville or Useless Precaution by Beaumarchais (1732-1799), first performed at the Théâtre -French on February 23, 1775, one of the three plays by this author counting among its heroes the character of Figaro.

Before Rossini, another Italian composer, Giovanni Paisiello, had composed Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La precauzione inutile, created in 1782 and which was a huge success. Mozart composed The Marriage of Figaro, an opera inspired by Beaumarchais' trilogy, mainly by La Folle journée, or the Marriage of Figaro.