The Barber of Seville

The Barber of Seville is one of the opera world's funniest tales - a musical comedy full of entanglements, infatuation and cunning schemes. We meet the charming barber Figaro, who with quick-witted lines and even quicker solutions helps the young Count Almaviva win the heart of the beautiful Rosina. The pace is high, the melodies are immortal, and laughter comes easily as disguises, misunderstandings and secret arrangements become tangled up with one another. This is opera at its most playful - elegant, energetic and irresistibly entertaining. Rossini's music is bel canto (beautiful singing) at its finest - with long, shapely vocal lines, spellbinding arias, ensembles with bite and a refined, lyrical orchestration. The Barber of Seville is the best known of the many operas by the composer genius Rossini. Programme Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868): The Barber of Seville (1816) Librettist: Cesare Sterbini (1784 –1831) Performers: Peter Szilvay / Conductor Vidar Magnussen / Director Gjermund Andresen / Set designer Katja Ebbel / Costume designer Clement Irbil / Lighting designer Stian Danielsen/ Choreographer Lydia Hoen Tjore / Rosina Markus Schwarz / Doctor Bartolo Theodor Uggla / Count Almaviva Simon Thorbjørnsen / Figaro Magnus Ingemund Kjelstad / Fiorello Ketil Hugaas / Don Basilio Nora Oleanne Sårheim / Berta

• Peter Szilvay
• Lydia Hoen Tjore
• Markus Schwarz
• Theodor Uggla

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Gioacchino Rossini: Barbereren i Sevilla

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