Opera Il barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville) (opera in concert) World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera Theatre - Opera and Concert Hall
Running time: 3 hours 25 minutes
Schedule for Il barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville) (opera in concert) 2022
Composer: Gioacchino Rossini Set Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev Musical Preparation: Irina Soboleva Musical Director: Justus Frantz Principal Chorus Master: Leonid Teplyakov Lighting Designer: Eugene Ganzburg Lighting Designer: Yevgeny Ganzburg
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Premiere of this production: 26 March 2009, Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
opera in two acts
Music by Gioachino Rossini Libretto by Cesare Sterbini after
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais' comedy Le Barbier de Seville,
ou Precaution inutile Performed in Russian
Musical
Director: Justus FrantzProduction
Director: Alexei StepanyukProduction Designer:
Vyacheslav Okunev Lighting Designer: Yevgeny
GanzburgMusical Preparation: Irina Soboleva
Lead Chorus Master: Leonid Tepliakov
World premiere: 20 February 1816, Teatro Argentina, Rome Premiere of this
production: 26 March 2009, Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Running time 3 hours 25 minutes The performance has two
intervals
SYNOPSIS Count Almaviva is in love with the beautiful
Rosina, and she is prepared to answer his amorous overtones, but she has a
guardian – Dr Bartolo, who wishes to marry his ward because of her vast
dowry. Mistrustful of Rosina, he hastens on with the wedding. The Count asks
his old friend Figaro, whom he has met by chance near Bartolo’s home and who has
told him details of the relationship between Rosina and her guardian, for
assistance in gaining access to the doctor’s house in order to see the young
girl in secret. Figaro advises the Count to disguise himself as a soldier and
pretend to be drunk and demand lodgings from the doctor to sleep it off. Figaro
himself comes to the doctor in the guise of a patient. Meanwhile, Don
Basilio, Rosina’s singing teacher, finding out about Count Almaviva’s fervent
passions, hurries to warn the doctor and advises him to defame his rival in the
eyes of Rosina. The appearance of a drunken soldier (Almaviva in disguise)
enrages Bartolo. In the ensuing chaos, the doctor notices that the “soldier” is
trying to pass a note to Rosina unobserved. A furious skirmish flares up once
again with new energy. Figaro calls for the police, thanks to whose arrival the
Count succeeds in escaping from a highly undesirable situation. Having
suffered initial failure, Almaviva takes new measures to meet with Rosina. This
time he appears as music teacher Don Alonso, apparently sent instead of Don
Basilio who has fallen ill. This time the Count succeeds in declaring his love
to Rosina and, despite the fact that because of Dr Bartolo’s schemes Rosina has
all but lost faith in the sincerity of the emotions of her ardent admirer, the
lovers nonetheless succeed in making peace and agree to flee. Their plans are
almost ruined by the appearance of Don Basilio and his notary, who have come to
draw up the marriage licence between the doctor and Rosina. But Bartolo is not
at home. Seizing the opportunity, Count Almaviva bribes Don Basilio, and he
agrees to be a witness to the marriage contract concluded between Count Almaviva
and Rosina. Even the appearance of the indignant Dr Bartolo can no longer
ruin the joy of the lovers.
Schedule for Il barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville) (opera in concert) 2022
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