Teatro del Maggio

“This directing is a play of fantasy and evocation. The spaces of the story are always evoked, never represented. The possibility to evoke the presence of something on the stage is one of the fascinating aspects of the theatre, and therefore I have tried to use normal, simple objects, making them become the only ingredient for the sets. The result is that I found myself with a stage in which two dozen red chairs, a blue staircase, umbrellas and a number of huge balloons were all that I needed. The characters seem to explode into their physical and caricatural aspects. Thus, we have fantastical costumes, of pure imagination, with clear references to animal traits, very similar to the Commedia dell’Arte”. This is Rossini’s Barbiere in the version by Damiano Michieletto, one of the most successful of international operatic directors, who took his first steps in this profession in 2005.

Il barbiere di Siviglia, or sia L'inutil precauzione
A humourous melodrama in two acts based on the comedy of the same name by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beumarchais
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Music by Gioachino Rossini
First performed: 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome

Staged by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Maggioformazione - 2005

Artists

Conductor
Giuseppe Grazioli

Director and scenic staging
Damiano Michieletto

Costumes
Carla Teti

Light design
Alessandro Tutini

Assistant director
Tecla Gucci

Choir director
Lorenzo Fratini

Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Rosina
Paola Gardina

Figaro
Giorgio Caoduro

Don Bartolo
Omar Montanari

Count Almaviva
Levy Sekgapane

Don Basilio
Luca Dall’Amico

Fiorello
Jungmin Kim

Berta
Eleonora Bellocci

An officer
Vito Luciano Roberti

Performers
Silvia Benvenuto, Enrica Gualtieri, Paolo Arcangeli, Mauro Barbiero, Fabrizio Casagrande, Alessandro Ciardini, Cristiano Colangelo and Pierangelo Preziosa

Stalls 1	€ 80
Stalls 2	€ 60
Stalls 3	€ 50
Stalls 4	€ 40
Boxes	€ 30
Gallery	€ 20

Lyric Season 2017/18

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