Teatro Nuovo to Present ‘The Barber of Seville’ This Summer

By Francisco Salazar

Teatro Nuovo has announced the first full opera performances in New York City in over a year.

The company will offer Rossini’sThe Barber of Seville” on July 27 and 28 on the summer stage at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park.

In a statement, Artistic Director Will Crutchfield said that “The Barber”  was chosen because “it is the longest-lasting and most beloved opera in the whole repertory of Bel Canto.”

For the production, Teatro Nuovo will use an orchestra of 35 players, the exact number employed at its 1816 premiere in Rome. Crutchfield will join as maestro al cembalo, playing a newly restored 1804 fortepiano by the London firm of Astor and Company.

The cast will be headlined by Hannah Ludwig, Hans Tashjian Nicholas Simpson, Alina Tamborini, Daniel Fridley, Scott Purcell, and Kyle Oliver.

It will be played in Teatro Nuovo’s now-traditional semi-staged style – fully enacted, but without stage director, again in conformity with the practice of Rossini’s day.

The opera will be performed nearly complete, with a few cuts to hold running time under three hours (with one intermission). It will be played in Teatro Nuovo’s now-traditional semi-staged style – fully enacted, but without a stage director.

 

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