The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
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October 22- November 1 2008: Il Barbiere di SivigliaJanuary 21-31 2009: The Grapes of WrathMarch 21-29 2009: Salomé Opera Pacific's next season features a West Coast premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's The Grapes of Wrath, which had its first performances last year at the Minnesota Opera. Deborah Voigt will sing Salomé, for me, this might…
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September 20 2008: Il TrovatoreNovember 1 2008: Die Entführung aus dem SerailJanuary 24 2009: FaustFebruary 28 2009: The Adventures of PinocchioApril 11 2009: Il Barbiere di Siviglia The Minnesota Opera's next season includes a U.S. premiere of Jonathan Dove's The Adventures of Pinocchio, some Mariinsky stars, and Paul Groves as Faust. Star Tribune Article |…
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September 19- October 11 2008: OtelloSeptember 26- October 9 2008: Il Barbiere di SivigliaFebruary 7-28 2008: Le Nozze di FigaroOctober 8-10 2008: JenůfaFebruary 12-27 2009: L'Elisir d'AmoreFebruary 24-26 2009: SaloméMay 13- June 4 2009: The Queen of SpadesMay 18- June 6 2009: La BohèmeJune 2 2009: Mitridate, Re Di Ponte Rebecca Evans is has her…
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* Notes * Il Barbiere di Siviglia closes this Thursday, and last Sunday’s performance was not bad, though I was rather distracted by reading the vocal score and not watching the stage. * Tattling * The main problem with the balcony is the latecomers, because otherwise, the sound is rather good up there. A family…
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* Notes * The seventh performance of Il Barbiere di Siviglia this season was at least better than the last I saw. Things may have been helped by standing in the balcony, where the sound is better. I could definitely hear Nathan Gunn (Figaro) more clearly except when he was in the upper room of…
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* Notes * Alarmingly, the fifth performance of Il Barbiere di Siviglia this season was worse than opening night, at least as far as Act I. John Osborn (Count Almaviva) was flat, Allyson McHardy (Rosina) gasped in her prominent aria "Una voce poco fa," Nathan Gunn (Figaro) seemed more concerned with his Vespa than with…
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* Notes * A revival of Johannes Schaaf’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia production from 2003 opened last night on Halloween. Hans Dieter Schaal’s set looked as white and stark as ever, the centerpiece being a German fantasy of the Barbie Malibu Dream House, which Thomas May describes as "Bauhaus inflected." The scene changes do go…
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On 13. January 2004, I attended my third performance of Il barbiere di Siviglia at San Francisco Opera. This new production is owned by San Francisco Opera, but the stage director, set designer, and dramaturge have all worked at the Stuttgart Opera, and it showed. The set looked very much like a German fantasy of…
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