Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2024-25 Review: The Barber of Seville

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(Photo: “The Barber of Seville” debuted just over 200 years ago in Rome. The opera played to a jeering audience, a staged event where adherents of the composer Giovanni Paisiello – whose own version of the opera, “Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La precauzione inutile” had pleased operagoers 20 years earlier – packed the house and catcalled throughout the premiere {…}

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Opera Australia Will Celebrate ‘The Barber of Seville’ Production With Special Offer

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Elijah Moshinsky’s production of “The Barber of Seville” will return to the Sydney Opera House for its 30th anniversary season in January 2025. To celebrate the anniversary, Opera Australia is offering 30 tickets for only $30 each for every performance in its six-week run. The $30 ticket promotion is just one of many initiatives OA has implemented with the aim {…}

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Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: The Barber of Seville

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(Photo credit: Eric Woolsey) “The Barber of Seville” can be tough to sit through. Opera Theatre Saint Louis (OTSL) swam upstream furiously against the libretto’s banalities to produce an entertaining show, with standout performances from Justin Austin in the title role, and Hongni Wu as Rosina. In youth, I received as a gift the London/Decca recording featuring Leo Nucci as {…}

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Opéra Louisiane to Present ‘The Barber of Seville’

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Baton Rouge’s Opéra Louisiane is set to present Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville.” The opera, which is based on the play called “Le Barbier de Séville” by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais, is the first of three plays about a character Figaro. For this production, the famed opera will star Scott Purcell as Figaro, and Hannah Ludwig as Rosina. They will {…}

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Light Opera of NJ Announces Cast Change for ‘The Barber of Seville’

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Light Opera of NJ has announced a cast change for its “The Barber of Seville” production. The company revealed that Kelly Guerra will be performing the role of Rosina instead of Mayela López, who was originally scheduled to perform. She joins a cast that features Carlos Alberto López, Fabían Robles, Carlos Conde González, Gregory Sheppard, Vladimir Hristov, and Christina Lamberti. {…}

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Charles Court Opera to Perform ‘The Barber of Seville’

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Charles Court Opera is set to perform Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville.” The opera will be performed from March 12 to March 23, 2024 with a cast that includes Nicholas Watts and Joseph Doody as Count Almaviva, Jonathan Eyers as Figaro, Samantha Price and Meriel Cunningham as Rosina, Matthew Kellett and Hugo Herman-Wilson as Don Basilio, Catrine Kirkman as Berta {…}

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North Carolina Opera Releases Cast Details for ‘The Barber of Seville’

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North Carolina Opera has released its casting for “The Barber of Seville,” which will take place Feb. 2 and 4, 2024. Baritone Luke Sutliff takes on the leading role of Figaro. Bass-baritone Musa Ngqungwana sings Don Basilio, with tenor David Walton as Count Almaviva, mezzo-soprano Lisa Marie Rogali as Rosina, who is joined by bass-baritone Ben Brady as her guardian, {…}

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Light Opera of NJ to Present ‘The Barber of Seville’

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Light Opera of NJ has announced that it will present “The Barber of Seville” this February. First up is a performance at Union County PAC in Rahway on Feb. 17, 2024. On the following day, the production heads to Sieminski Theater in Basking Ridge. Jason Tramm conducts a cast that stars Carlos Alberto López, Mayela López, Fabían Robles, Carlos Conde {…}

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Opera San José to Present ‘The Barber of Seville’

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Opera San José is set to present Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” in November. The opera, which is subtitled “The Useless Precaution,” will be showcased in a production with scenery and costumes designed by Adrian Linford and directed by Stephen Lawless. The cast will include bass-baritone Dale Travis as Dr. Bartolo, baritone Ricardo José Rivera as Figaro, mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz {…}

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Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2024-25 Review: The Barber of Seville

Opera Australia Will Celebrate ‘The Barber of Seville’ Production With Special Offer

Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: The Barber of Seville

Opéra Louisiane to Present ‘The Barber of Seville’

Light Opera of NJ Announces Cast Change for ‘The Barber of Seville’

Charles Court Opera to Perform ‘The Barber of Seville’

North Carolina Opera Releases Cast Details for ‘The Barber of Seville’

Light Opera of NJ to Present ‘The Barber of Seville’

Opera San José to Present ‘The Barber of Seville’