THE BARBER OF SEVILLE

an opera in two acts (three scenes) by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto Cesare Sterbini

Director Slavcho Nikolov
Choreographer – Romina Slavova
Set Artist Aleksandar Gyoshev

Count Almaviva – Nikolay Motsov
Doctor Bartolo – Evgeniy Arabadzhiev
Rosina – Petya Petrova
Figaro, a barber – Valeri Turmanov
Don Basilio, a music teacher – Plamen Kumpikov
Fiorello, Almaviva’s servant – Teodor Petkov
Berta, governess for Bartolo – Yanitsa Nesheva
Ambrogio – Dragomir Hristov
Notary – Aleksandar Zhelev
Officer – Lyubomir Petkov
Slander – Petya Vaneva
Orchestra and Choir of the Stara Zagora State Opera

A complex and complicated story occurs when you want to win the love of a girl, while all the world is against you. To help Count Almaviva win the heart of his beloved Rosina, there comes Figaro. He is the unquestionable specialist in public relations, marketing and advertising! Besides, he is a wedding agent, matchmaker, psychotherapist from Seville, Spain. Figaro is skillful in giving advice about writing love letters, in acting etc., he is a story-writer, actor and director of high class – simultaneously in the spectacles of his life and the lives of others. He is capable of making complex, but sound relationships – of the rich with the poor, of those in love – with the hard-hearted, of the innocent – with the manipulators. Figaro gains personal benefits for himself, but everyone receives what they want – in the opera “The Barber of Seville” after the play by Pier Beaumarchais and music by Gioachino Rossini.

“The Barber of Seville” by Rossini and “La traviata” by Verdi have been the most favorite productions of the Stara Zagora audience for the 90 years since the foundation of the Opera in our city and they have been most frequently performed on its stage. “The Barber of Seville” by Gioachino Rossini was performed for the first time in the Linden Tree City on 4 December 1927. The next premieres were on 3 January 1945, 19 November 1957, 29 April 1972, 18 September 1980, 20 May 1991, 9 October 1998.

Premiere: 6 October 2017
Duration: 2 hours with one interval