Mount Tambora, in the Dutch West Indies (today’s Indonesia), had exploded not long before the opera’s staging, killing nearly 100,000 people. Napoleon was in Paris with 340,000 soldiers. The Napoleonic Wars were tearing the world asunder.
Stephanie Lauricella and Joseph Lattanzi keep the fun going in this new production.
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The well-to-do attended – men with their cravats tied just so, women with their dresses crisp as apples – while the world churned outside. Gioachino Rossini’s beloved opera buffa premiered on February 20, 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. Should we be at the opera, a funny one at that, while a million and more Ukrainian refugees flood into other countries as theirs is being bombed? Should we be chuckling at the antics of Figaro, the barber of Seville, while husbands are being conscripted into war and wives are making Molotov cocktails? Should we be sitting in plush box seats with our opera glasses, looking at beautiful people singing beautiful music, while there is a miles-long column of Russian military bearing down on Kyiv? There was a steady round of applause before the curtain went up. The opening night performance of Atlanta Opera’s The Barber of Seville was dedicated to the people of Ukraine.Īrtistic director Tomer Zvulun spoke before the performance about the tragedy unfolding there.
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