The Barber of Seville

18 January – 28 February 2025

In the Joan Sutherland Theatre

Opera Australia

Opera

A rollicking, laugh-out-loud comedy about everyone’s favourite friendly neighbourhood barber: Fi-ga-ro! Figaro! Figaro! 

If you haven’t seen it before you’re in for a treat. 

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Useful information:

This canny barber is the city’s matchmaking maestro!

Almaviva is wealthy, stealthy and head over heels. Rosina is witty, pretty and just as smitten. She’s also inconveniently betrothed. They need a plan. Time to call on: Fi-ga-ro! Figaro! Figaro!

Enter the friendly neighbourhood barber with wits and tricks as sharp as his razors. He sets to work to unite the young lovers in an evening of disguises and duplicity.

This rollicking, laugh-out-loud comedy took a young Rossini just 13 days to write. Playful energy sparkles through as many famous tunes as you can pack into two-and-a-half hours.

A cast of great voices and high spirits play among a marvellous set of cartoonish proportions — a world inspired by 1920s silent films, featuring a life-size doll’s house as its centrepiece.

Presented by Opera Australia

Artist information

Conductor  Daniel Smith (Jan 18–Feb 22), Tahu Matheson (Feb 24–28)
Director  Elijah Moshinsky
Set Designer  Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer  Dona Granata
Lighting Designer  Howard Harrison
Revival Director  Heather Fairbairn
 

Figaro  Samuel Dale Johnson
Rosina  Serena Malfi (Jan 18–Feb 13), Helen Sherman (Feb 15–28)
Count Almaviva  John Lonmuir (Jan 18–Feb 13), Shanul Sharma (Feb 15–28)
Dr Bartolo  Andrew Moran
Don Basilio  David Parkin

Opera Australia Orchestra
Opera Australia Chorus

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