Il barbiere di Siviglia (Saint-Petersburg Opera Theatre, opera)
Il barbiere di Siviglia (Saint-Petersburg Opera Theatre, opera)
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| Ticket price: Tickets available by request Genre: Opera
| Age restriction: 16+ | Length: 2 hour 40 minutes
Credits
Music: Gioachino Rossini Libretto: Cesare Sterbini Production: Yuri Alexandrov Conductor: Alexander Goikhman Set and Costume Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev Lighting Designer: Irina Vtornikova Stage Director: Darya Modzalevskaya Musical Preparation: Nina Zhukovskaya Chorus Master: Maria Gergel Choreographer: Nadezhda Kalinina Video-art: Viktoria Zlotnikova Italian Language Coach: Darya Mitrofanova
Description
The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera for the first time turned to one of the most popular operas by Rossini. The director interpreted the comedy plot as the Italian commedia dell'arte and the company played it brilliantly and with young enthusiasm. "A comedy of manners is always interesting", the director Yuri Alexandrov says. – "Love, jealousy, betrayal ... These feelings are always close and familiar to people, whether it is in our time, the last century or earlier ...
We play in Italian to retain the opera’s style and phonetics. Although playing in the original language somewhat deprives the performance of some comical points, the situational comedy remains, where humor arises from the whole meaning rather than from the text itself".