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| Rosina sung by Allyson McHardy - mezzo-soprano |
| Bertha sung by Catherine Cook - mezzo-soprano |
| Count Almaviva sung by John Osborn* - tenor |
| Figaro sung by Nathan Gunn - baritone |
| Don Basilio sung by Phillip Ens - bass |
| Conductor - Maurizio Barbacini |
| Director - Johannes Schaaf |
| Set Design - Hans Dieter Schaal |
| Costume Design - Yan Tax |
| Original Lighting - Paul Pyant |
| Ambrogio sung by Ricardo Herrera - bass |
| Doctor Bartolo sung by Bruno de Simone* - baritone |
| Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
| Magistrate sung by Jeremy Galyon - bass-baritone |
| Tue-October 31 (8 pm) A-C; Thr-November 2 (7:30 pm) D-F, Sat-November 4 (8 pm) J-K, Tue-7 (7:30 pm)X-Z, Beginner, Thr-November 9 (7:30 pm) R-T, Sun-12 (2 pm)M-N, Fri-November 17 (8 pm) G-H- TG-WE, Sun 26 (2 pm) W, Thr-November 30 (7:30 pm) Y LEADING MEN-SET IN SAVILLE OOT3 |
| Chorus Director - Ian Robertson |
| Mute: Notary - Doug Spradlin/ Vespa Acrobat - Paris Wages / Laura Neustedter |
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| As if in compensation, Schaaf has devised a frantically busy staging, sometimes witty and clever, sometimes brilliantly apt ...Figaro’s entrance on a bright red Vespa is expertly timed and has the right kind of theatrical flair that suits the character. On the other hand, the finale of act one ...the principals all ...singing, but ...most of the audience was captivated in watching the men’s chorus dismantle and strip the Vespa down to its bare chassis./ Review |
| Figaro shaving a customer on his red Vespa, just after his arrival. |
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| A two-story house, all in white, ... rotating to let us see into the various rooms, ... Figaro arrives on a shiny red Vespa, his barber kit in a wicker basket ...singing his entrance aria "Largo al factotum" while shaving the beard of his passenger, who emerges as a model-pretty young woman in a green cocktail dress. /Review |
| Although this Barber set is modern, it is a variation on Alfred Siercke’s stacked house set of 1963/ Bloomfield SF Opera 1922-1978. |
| Fiorello/ Sergeant sung by Eugene Brancoveanu - baritone |
| The least controversial San Francisco Opera new production of the Pamela Rosenberg era, it is the Godzilla of all "Barber" productions, enormous in its physical size. It was a late replacement for a scheduled new production of "Lucia di Lammermoor", which apparently has been scrapped./ Opera Warhorse |
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| Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Approximate Running Time: 3 hours, 15 minutes Sung in Italian with English Supertitles |
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| Lighting - Rober Hill |
| Magistrate sung by William Pickersgill - bass |