Notice to opera buffa fans! The Opéra Garnier offers several performances of Gioacchino Rossini’s masterpiece, The Barber of Seville, from June 10 to July 13, 2025. The opportunity to immerse yourself in this adaptation of Beaumarchais’ work.
Rossini’s work under the prism of modernity… This is what the Opéra Garnier offers with several performances of his famous comic opera, The Barber of Sevillefrom June 10 to July 13, 2025. A work by the composer adapted from the eponymous novel by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.
The story, if you are familiar with French literature, you know it: Figaro, a barber by profession, comes to the aid of Count Almaviva to conquer the heart of Rosine, who is in the grip of Doctor Bartholo. The latter intends to marry his ward with the help of Don Basilio. An impossible love story between Rosine and Almaviva, as opera loves them, and which ends on a pretty note for the two lovebirds, not without the help of the ingenious Figaro, never short of ideas and disguises .
An opera staged here by Damiano Michielettooriginally from Venice, cradle of Commedia dell’Arte and able to transcribe this “burlesque vein of Rossinian music” which we find in the original version. A transposition of the work in a contemporary Seville, “inspired by Almodovar’s cinema“… In short, the opportunity to rediscover a masterpiece of French literature through the prism of the composition of Rossinias well as one of the most popular works among opera lovers. Shall we go, friends?
