Le Barbier de Seville

Inspired by Beaumarchais comedy Rossini retains all the passion to create this bubbling opera buffa A native of Venice the cradle of the commedia dellarte Damiano Michieletto is sensitive to the burlesque vein of Rossinian music He transposes the action of this unnecessary precaution into a contemporary Seville inspired by the cinema of Almodóvar Bartolos monumental building in which Figaro swirls in free electron allows the director to give free rein to his crazy imagination