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IL BARBIERE DE SIVIGLIA

The Royal Opera House
October 2016

BY GIOACHINO ROSSINI

Il barbiere di Siviglia has all the ingredients for comic chaos: an imprisoned young woman, her lecherous guardian and a young noble suitor. Skilfully plotting behind the scenes is Figaro – an irrepressible and inventive character in whom many have seen a resemblance to the young Rossini himself. The score fizzes with musical brilliance, from Figaro’s famous entrance aria ‘Largo al factotum’ to the frenzy of the Act I finale, when the five principal voices pile on top of each other. Within a few decades of its 1816 premiere, Il barbiere di Siviglia had been toured round the world, reaching opera houses in New York, Buenos Aires, Trinidad and Ecuador. It has remained one of the most prominent and popular operas in the repertory.

Dewi completed the ‘Stage One Director’s Placement’ at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden – working on the staff director team for the 2017 revival of ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’. 

Backstage with the Royal Opera's Barber of Seville – photo essay by Alicia Canter for The Guardian

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

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DIRECTORS

MOSHE LEISER & PATRICE CAURIER

MUSICAL DIRECTOR

HENRIK NANASI

REVIAL DIRECTOR

THOMAS GUTHRIE

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

PEDRO RIBEIRO

STAFF DIRECTORS OBSERVER PROGRAMME

DEWI JOHNSON

FIGARO

VITO PRIANTE

COUNT ALMAVIVA

JAVIER CAMARENA

ROSINA

DANIELA MACK

FIORELLA

GYULA NAGY

DON BASILIO

FERRUCCIO FURLANETTO

DOCTOR BARTOLO

JOSE FARDILHA

BERTA

MADELEINE PIERARD

STAGE MANAGER

FRAN BEAUMONT

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