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Gioachino Rossini’s
The Barber of Seville
Opera Verdi Europa
Sunday, October 30, 2005
7:00 pm
Main Stage - $40
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Charming, delightful and hilarious, Rossini’s great comic opera is hard to beat. A funny,
silly story filled with disguise, deception and intrigue, this entertaining farce sees the
headstrong heroine Rosina outwitting her elderly guardian with the aid of co-conspirators
Count Almaviva, who eventually wins her hand, and Figaro - the barber who
moonlights as part-time fixer. Figaro easily emerges as the star of The Barber of Seville.
His self-confidence, rooted in the conviction that inherently he is as good as any other man,
is the basis of the social criticism that is apparent, though muted, in the play by
Beaumarchais that is the libretto for this opera. Figaro is also a successful character because of his joyful yet irrepressible behavior. He survives in contemporary times as the epitome of the
roguish figure, endowed with cleverness, wit and restrained insolence.
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