El barbero de Sevilla

Opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini in a production by Damiano Michieletto, with the Count of Almaviva and the barber Figaro driving the intrigues to win over Rosina at the Teatro Real.

The plot revolves around the Count of Almaviva, determined to win the love of Rosina, a young woman closely watched by her guardian Bartolo, who wants to marry her to seize her fortune. To outwit the guardian, the Count turns to the ingenious barber Figaro, who devises outlandish but effective plans. Amid disguises, misunderstandings and comic situations, Rosina ends up besotted with the Count without, at first, knowing who he really is.

The staging by Damiano Michieletto, stage director, places the action on a revolving façade representing an apartment block, a device that keeps the intrigues in step with the nimble rhythm of Gioachino Rossini's music. After a chain of confusions that expose Bartolo, Figaro's cunning makes love triumph in an ingenious finale with a humorous tone. The opera is sung in Italian, with translation projected in English and Spanish.

Musical direction is by Giacomo Sagripanti, and the cast includes Marina Viotti, Isabel Leonard, Olga Syniakova, René Barbera, Pietro Adaini, Dave Monaco, Andrzej Filonczyk, Florian Sempey, Germán Olvera, Misha Kiria, Nicola Alaimo, Pablo Ruiz, Roberto Tagliavini, Maharram Huseynov, Alejandro López, María José Moreno and Lauren Randolph, alongside other artists.