Opera Australia – The Barber of Seville

Murwillumbah Theatre Company has organised the  once only opportunity   for you to enjoy one of Rossini’s best comic operas – The Barber of Seville  on Tues August 16th 7.30pm at Murwillumbah Civic  Centre Auditorium.

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.

Beyond haircuts and beard trims, this canny barber is the city’s matchmaking maestro!  Almaviva is wealthy, stealthy and head over heels. Smitten Rosina is witty and pretty with razor-sharp smarts. 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 scissors. It takes all of his clever disguises, subterfuge and scheming to wrangle a romantic encounter for the would-be lovers!

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