Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Description

Comic opera in two acts, libretto by Cesare Sterbini based on the comedy The Barbier of Seville by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Music by Gioachino Rossini

Concertmaster and conductor Enrico Calesso

Set and costume design Pier Luigi Pizzi

Figaro Alessandro Luongo

Rosina Annalisa Stroppa

Count Almaviva Marco Ciaponi

Bartolo Marco Filippo Romano

Chorus Master Paolo Longo

Orchestra, Chorus, and Technicians of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi of Trieste

Gioachino Rossini's masterpiece, with its consistently fresh and winning comedy, is entrusted to a first-rate vocal and artistic cast. First performed in 1816, Gioachino Rossini's two-act opera The Barber of Seville, with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini, arrives exactly thirty-four years after Giovanni Paisiello's eponymous composition, which was immediately met with great success. This was not the case for Rossini's version, which, upon its debut at the Teatro Argentina in Rome, was a resounding flop: the fault lies primarily with a biased audience, who boycotted the performance to avenge the outrage inflicted on Paisiello. Time, however, has proven Pesaro's genius and the splendor of his score right. With over two hundred years of history and as beloved today as it was then, this authentic masterpiece of comic opera is presented in the new production that will open the season at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. The direction, costumes, and sets are by one of the most prestigious living designers, Pier Luigi Pizzi, and the cast features Annalisa Stroppa as Rosina—who also starred in Cenerentola two seasons ago—and Alessandro Luongo as Figaro. Enrico Calesso conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Trieste opera house.

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Nuovo allestimento della Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste produzione Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste