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SUMMARY

Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini

The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution (Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L’inutile precauzione) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais’s comedy Le Barbier de Séville (1775), which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music. The première (under the title Almaviva, or the Futile Precaution) took place on 20 February 1816, at the Teatro Argentina, Rome. It was one of the earliest Italian operas to be performed in America and premiered at the Park Theater in New York City on 29 November 1825.Rossini’s Barber has proven to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all opere buffe; even after two hundred years, its popularity on the modern opera stage attests to that greatness.

 

CAST

	Figaro - Nelson Martinez               ****************
	Count Almaviva - David Pereira
	Rosina - Lissette Jimenez
	Rosina - Jennifer Zamorano * ±
	Dcotor Bartolo - Stefano de Peppo ^ †
	Don Bartolo - Carlos Conde ‡ ±
	Don Basilio - Carlos Conde ^ †
	Don Basilio - Diego Baner ‡ ±
	Fiorello - Enrique Estrada
	Berta - Daisy Su
	Berta - Joanne Martinez * ±
	Ambrogio - Gabriel Menedez
	Sargeant - Eric Dobkin *
	Conductor - Beverly Coulter
	Artistic Director Raffaele Cardone
	Chorus Master Pablo Hernandez

Sung in Italian with English projected titles.

* MLO Debut
^ August 18, 2012 (Only)
† August 19, 2012 (Only)
‡ October 6, 2012 (Only)
± October 7, 2012 (Only)

PERFORMANCES

Sat, August 18, 2012, 8:00 PM	COMPLETE
Sun, August 19, 2012, 4:00 PM	COMPLETE
Sat, October 6, 2012, 8:00 PM	BUY TICKETS
Sun, October 7, 2012, 4:00 PM	BUY TICKETS