DER BARBIER VON SEVILLA

Il barbiere di Siviglia

OPERA

Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Based on the play "Le Barbier de Séville" by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

The old miser Bartolo wants to marry his pretty ward Rosina. However, she has her eye on a stranger who brings her serenades under the window. The suspicious Bartolo wants the wedding to go ahead all the more quickly and has Rosina closely guarded. Fortunately, there is also the cunning Figaro. The well-known barber is prepared to do anything for money, and the ringing coins of the stranger, who is in fact Count Almaviva, set off a veritable firework of ideas in Figaro's head.

After the famous comedy "Le Barbier de Séville" by Beaumarchais, the almost 24-year-old Gioachino Rossini wrote his most popular opera to date in just two weeks in 1816. He spared neither breakneck coloratura nor instrumental effects. Figaro's entrance aria - one of the most persistently catchy tunes in music history -, Rosina's "Una voce poco fa" or the thunderstorm that Rossini unleashes in the orchestra in the second act are among the musical highlights of superlatives and guarantee entertainment for the whole family.

In cooperation with Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona and Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse