Language

Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

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Supporting Partner

Bloomberg

This production is supported by

The Opera Conference, Australia’s national partnership of professional opera companies, the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, by the NSW Government through Create NSW, and by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

The national tour regional children's chorus program is supported by

The William Rubensohn Foundation

Beyond haircuts and beard trims, 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!

The stage is set for comic chaos. Our enterprising barber Figaro has wits and tricks as sharp as his razors. It takes all of his clever disguises, subterfuge and scheming to wrangle a romantic encounter for the would-be lovers.

The Barber of Seville fizzes and pops with lyrical acrobatics and irrepressibly funny characters. Rossini’s most famous ‘opera buffa’ is a musical masterpiece with a storyline that would be equally at home in a Hollywood rom-com. Opera Australia’s finest voices and a live orchestra deliver a score that is instantly familiar from renditions in movies, cartoons and commercials. Here, the frothy humour is intoxicating and the chorus revels in every uproarious escapade.

Delight in a riotous romp along the road to true love! This is opera at its light-hearted, effervescent best.

Casts & Creatives

CONDUCTOR
DIRECTOR
SET DESIGNER
COSTUME DESIGNER
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Morgan Moroney
ORCHESTRAL REDUCTION
Simon Bruckard

On Tour in 2023

New South Wales Tour Dates 

Parramatta, NSW | 14 & 15 July | Riverside Theatre
Goulburn, NSW | 19 July | Goulburn Performing Arts Centre

Queensland Tour Dates 

Cleveland, QLD | 22 July | Redland Performing Arts Centre
Rockhampton, QLD | 28 July | Pilbeam Theatre
Mackay, QLD | 31 July | Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre
Cairns, QLD | 5 August | Cairns Performing Arts Centre

Northern Territory Tour Dates 

Darwin, NT | 9 & 10 August | Darwin Entertainment Centre
Katherine, NT | 12 August | St Joseph's College – In Concert
Tennant Creek, NT | 15 August | Tennant Creek Civic Hall
Alice Springs, NT
| 17 AugustAraluen Art Centre

Western Australia Tour Dates 

Albany, WA | 21 August | Albany Entertainment Centre
Margaret River, WA | 23 August | Margaret River HEART
Kalgoorlie, WA | 26 August | Goldfields Arts Centre

Victoria Tour Dates

Geelong, VIC | 30 & 31 August | Geelong Arts Centre
Wangaratta, VIC | 2 September | Wangaratta Performing Arts & Convention Centre


 

Government Partners

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