Il barbiere di Siviglia at The State Opera

Dates: (9/4/2014 - 3/14/2015 )

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The State Opera

Wilsonova 4
Praha 1,Praha 1 110 00

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Tickets: 180.00 Kc - 1190.00 Kc

Running Time: 3 hours, 1 intermission

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Figaro, the most famous barber of all time, whose wit, as sharp as his razor, helps Count Almaviva to win his beloved Rosina. Love, guile and intrigue, these are the ingredients of Rossini’s superlative comic opera. The sparkling charm of the music, the forcible virtuoso parts of the heroes – the impish Rosina with bravura coloraturas and the mettlesome Figaro – as well as the rapid tempo at which the action hurtles forward, have secured Il barbiere di Siviglia a permanent position in the global repertoire.

Today, it beggars belief that the premiere on 20 February 1816 in Rome caused one of the greatest scandals in opera history! The work teems with dashing comic scenes, yet more serious tones appear too – one such being in the famous aria of the music teacher Don Basilio about slander, which still holds true today. Nevertheless, the author of the comedy Le Barbier de Séville, on which the libretto is based, the celebrated French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais, wrote that he above all wanted “to succumb to his merry temper and return the original joyful mood to theatre”. Rossini’s opera directly links up to this intention, and the same is the objective of the State Opera production, which was also received with great enthusiasm when performed in Salzburg in October 2007.

Cast and Creative team for Il barbiere di Siviglia at The State Opera

Libretto: Cesare Sterbini
Musical preparation: Enrico Dovico
Conductor: Enrico Dovico, Tomáš Brauner
Stage director: Martin Otava
Sets: Ján Zavarský
Costumes: Bettine Kirste
Chorus master: Adolf Melichar
Dramaturgy: Jitka Slavíková

Figaro

Ji?í Brückler

Svatopluk Sem

Count Almaviva

Aleš Briscein

Jaroslav B?ezina

Martin Šrejma

Bartolo

Miloš Horák

Ji?í Sulženko

Rosina

Jana Horáková Levicová

Michaela Kapustová

Basilio

Ivo Hrachovec

František Zahradní?ek

Berta

Sylva ?mugrová

Lucie Hilscherová

Fiorillo

Old?ich K?íž

Martin Matoušek

Ji?í Hruška

Jan Ondrá?ek

Ambrogio

Miroslav Svoboda

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