Il Barbiere di Siviglia at La Monnaie

Dates: (3/6/2015 )

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La Monnaie

23, rue Léopold
Brussel,Brussels 1000

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Phone: +32 (0)2 229 12 11

Tickets: €18.00 – €72.00

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As in the work of the same name by Rossini, Paisiello’s opera, written for the court of Catherine II in St. Petersburg, was based on Beaumarchais’ Le Barbier de Séville. The reason for this choice was the success of the play itself in Saint Petersburg. It is apparent from one of his letters that Paisiello received extremely precise instructions from the court : ‘What I should also advise you is to be brief, and use very few recitatives, because people don’t understand the language.’ Although the situation is completely different now, in the early 19th century Paisiello’s opera was a formidable rival to Rossini’s version. In the context of the opera buffa of the time, his opera was a masterpiece : with no complexity of characterisation or tonal style, but inventive and sharp in its development of comical situations packed with amorous entanglements. René Jacobs will quite definitely do full justice to its comic timing.

Cast and Creative team for Il Barbiere di Siviglia at La Monnaie

Music direction ¦ René Jacobs
PERFORMERS ¦ Topi Lehtipuu
Mari Eriksmoen
Bartolo ¦ Pietro Spagnoli
Figaro ¦ Andrè Schuen
Don Basilio ¦ Fulvio Bettini
Orchestra ¦ Freiburger Barockorchester
Members of the Young Artist's Programme of the Wiener Kammeroper

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