LA Opera's Barber of Seville stars Nathan Gunn in title role with Juan Diego Flórez and Joyce DiDonato in their Company Debuts November 29 - December 19, 2009
LA Opera presents an enchanting production of Gioachino Rossini’s popular bel canto comedy The Barber of Seville (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) November 29 - December 19, 2009 with a world-class cast of performers who will bring wonderful life to the musical wit and brilliance of this comic masterpiece.
Baritone Nathan Gunn returns to LA Opera in the title role
of Figaro, Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez stars
in his first LA Opera role as Count Almaviva, award-winning mezzo-soprano
Joyce DiDonato makes her Company debut as Rosina, Italian
bass-baritone Bruno Praticò sings Doctor Bartolo in
his Company debut, and Italian bass
Andrea Silvestrelli is Don Basilio. They will sing at the
November 29 opening and in the December 2, 6, 9, 13, 16 performances.
On December 5 and 12 as well as the matinee performance on December
19, the cast is headed by baritone Lucas Meachem in his Company
debut as Figaro, joined by Russian tenor Dmitry Korchak,
an Operalia winner, in his Company debut as Count Almaviva, soprano Sarah
Coburn as Rosina, bass-baritone Philip Cokorinos
as Doctor Bartolo and bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as Don Basilio.
Music direction is by the Italian conductor Michele Mariotti. Spanish director
Emilio Sagi returns to stage a production which he originally created for
the Teatro Real in Madrid, with scenery designed by Llorenç Corbella,
costumes designed by Renata Schussheim and lighting designed by Eduardo Bravo.
The choreographer is Nuria Castejón.
Rossini’s 1816 opera was based on an immensely popular 1775 play by
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Beaumarchais wrote two subsequent “Figaro”
plays, the second of which, The Marriage of Figaro, was adapted for
the operatic stage by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1786. In The Barber of
Seville, the resourceful barber Figaro comes to the aid of his former
master, Count Almaviva. The handsome Count is deliriously in love with the
ravishing young Rosina, a ward of old Doctor Bartolo, who is determined to
marry her himself. Rossini’s razor-sharp wit glints through every scene
in this riotous yet musically elegant comedy, one of the most popular in the
operatic repertoire.
The Barber of Seville will run for a total of ten performances from
November 29 through December 19, 2009. All performances will take place at
the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles CA, 90012.
Tickets: $20 to $260 on sale at the LA Opera Box Office,
online
or by phone at (213) 972-8001
Performances:
November 29, 2009 at 2:00pm
December 2, 5, 9, 16 at 7:30pm
December 6 and 13 at 2:00pm
December 12 at 12:00pm
December 19 at 1:00pm and 8:00pm
Source: LA Opera
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