Opera buffa in two acts
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini after the comedy »Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile“ by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Performed in Italian with German and English supertitles
Premiere
12. April 2008,
No further performances in the current season.
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Premiere cast
- Conductor Daniele Squeo, Evelino Pidò, Alessandro De Marchi
- Set & Costumes Luigi Perego
- Choir Jonathan Becker
- Staging Grischa Asagaroff
- Lighting Design Fabio Antoci
- Dramaturgy Stefan Ulrich
- Il Conte d'Almaviva Jonah Hoskins, Maxim Mironov, Pavel Kolgatin
- Dottore Bartolo Misha Kiria, Roberto de Candia, Marco Filippo Romano
- Rosina Valerie Eickhoff, Cecilia Molinari, Lilly Jørstad
- Figaro Joshua Hopkins, Andrei Zhilikhovsky, Emmett O’Hanlon
- Basilio Alexander Grassauer, Taras Shtonda, Alexander Vinogradov, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo
- Fiorello · Offizier Gerrit Illenberger
- Berta Alice Rossi, Adriane Queiroz, Roxana Incontrera
- Ambrogio Gerald Hupach, Heide Stock
Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Production of the Opera Zürich
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Il barbiere di Siviglia
The comic opera The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini, which premiered in 1816, carries the subtitle The Useless Precaution, and that’s precisely what it’s all about. Avaricious old Dottore Bartolo tries to keep his ward Rosina at home in order to marry her himself to gain the rich dowry. But his plotting is in vain: In various disguises, and with the help of the barber Figaro, the young and much more desirable Count Almaviva melts the young woman’s heart. The Barber of Seville is Rossini’s most popular opera due to its virtuoso arias and fast-paced ensembles, false identities and chicanery, all of which are beautifully realised in Grischa Asagaroff’s funny production.
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