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Rebeca Olvera and José Coca Loza have had to cancel their participation in today’s performance (June 5) of Il barbiere di Siviglia due to illness. The Salzburg Festival is grateful to Lavinia Bini and Stefan Astakhov for taking over the roles of Berta respectively Fiorello at short notice.

Balkon

Die Lola · singt saetas. · Die jungen Toreros · um sie geschart,
und der kleine Barbier, · von seiner Tür her,
folgt den Rhythmen · mit nickendem Kopf.
Zwischen Basilienkraut · und der guten Minze · singt die Lola · saetas.
Die Lola von damals, · die so lange sich ansah · in der Zisterne.

Federico García Lorca (1898—1936)

WHITSUN FESTIVAL 2022

About the Production

When Il barbiere di Siviglia premiered in 1816, the Roman carnival was nearing its climax. The opera was a highly appropriate match for the unfettered atmosphere of those days: delighting in masks and disguise, performance and pretence, it is permeated with the spirit of carnival — far more so than Giovanni Paisiello’s opera on the same subject, with which the young Rossini boldly competed. In comparison with Paisiello, everything in Rossini’s work appears energized, charged with dramatic vibrancy and incisive theatricality. How different, for example, is the Barber’s first entrance: effervescing with vitality, Figaro’s aria implies that not a single thing can be accomplished in all of Seville if he doesn’t have a hand in it. While the cunning ideas that are supposed to help Almaviva to gain the hand of his Rosina are not as ‘delicious’ as Figaro claims, they undoubtedly determine the events — in fact, Figaro becomes something like a co-author of the piece, especially given that he frequently steps out of the action in order to comment on it from a distance. Rolando Villazón will expand the meta-theatrical dimension that characterizes the opera, thus opening up new potential for comedy and moments of poetry: the quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti will play the part of a daydreamer who seeks escape in old movies. But what if the movie characters suddenly step out into the real world to find themselves in an opera?

Videos

3. June 2022
Il barbiere di Siviglia | Salzburg Festival Whitsun 2022
2. June 2022
Il barbiere di Siviglia Teaser | Salzburg Festival Whitsun 2022
Il barbiere di Siviglia | Salzburg Festival Whitsun 2022
Il barbiere di Siviglia Teaser | Salzburg Festival Whitsun 2022

Photos and Videos

Il barbiere di Siviglia whitsun festival Salzburg Alessandro Corbelli as Bartolo Cecilia Bartoli as Rosina
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Il barbiere di Siviglia Whitsun festival Salzburg Max Sahliger as Ambrogio Alessandro Corbelli as Bartolo Ildebrando D Arcangelo as Basilio Cecilia Bartoli as Rosina Edgardo Rocha as Il Conte d Almaviva
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Il barbiere di Siviglia whitsun festival Salzburg Arturo Brachetti
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Il barbiere di Siviglia whitsun festival Salzburg Edgardo Rocha as Il Conte d Almaviva Cecilia Bartoli as Rosina
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Il barbiere di Siviglia whitsun festival Salzburg Cecilia Bartoli as Rosina
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Il barbiere di Siviglia whitsun festival Salzburg Nicola Alaimo as Figaro Arturo Brachetti Edgardo Rocha as Il Conte d Almaviva Cecilia Bartoli as Rosina
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