Il barbiere de Siviglia

Went to Opera to see the Barber of Seville

at the Operaház on Saturday

.

The curtains were going up & down

during Rossini's beautiful & famous overture

- liked the simple but beautiful setting

.

Count Almaviva, a local nobleman - tenor

Dániel Vadász

Doctor Bartolo, Rosina's guardian - bass

Kázmer Sárkány

Rosina, Bartolo's ward - mezzo-soprano

Yang Li

Figaro, the barber of Seville - baritone

Csaba Szegedi

Basilio, Bartolo's accomplice - bass

Kolos Kováts

Berta, servnt of Bartolo - soprano

Dóra Érsek

Fiorello, The Count's servant - bass

Lajos Geiger

.

Conductor:

Géza Köteles

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Not bad,

although like more dramatic & tragic operas

than comedy ones

.

The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution

(Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione)

is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini

with a libretto

(based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville)

by Cesare Sterbini.

The overture, first written for Aureliano in Palmira,

is a famous example of Rossini's characteristic Italian style.

Rossini's opera follows the first of the plays from the Figaro trilogy,

by French playwright

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais,

while Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro,

composed 30 years earlier in 1786,

is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy.

The original Beaumarchais version was first performed in 1775,

in Paris.

Beautifully made ceiling at the opera entrance

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Magnolias on Andrássy út in the garden of Koga House