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The role of Figaro is Lithuanian National Opera baritone Vytautas Juozapaitis, who was the sexy Don in Teatro's DON GIOVANNI last fall. 

Almaviva will be sung by the romantic American tenor, Don Bernardini who received outstanding critical acclaim as Don Ottavio in Teatro's DON GIOVANNI last fall. 

Don Basilio will be sung by Opera Bolshoi basso Viacheslav Pockapsky who wowed Boston audiences as Boris Godounov in March 2003.  

Rosina is newcomer Bulgarian mezzo soprano Viara Dantcheva. She is technically perfect and her acting is superb.

Rossini composed  IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA when he was 24 years old.  It is considered to be the finest comic opera in existence!  From start to finish it is marvelously crafted, brilliantly inventive, and uproariously funny. 

The libretto is based on LE MARRIAGE DE FIGARO of Baumarchais, a French playwright whose book had already served Mozart with an excellent opera subject for his NOZZE DI FIGARO.  The setting is Seville in the 18th Century.  The central figure is Figaro, the barber.  Count Almaviva, a Spanish grandee, has arrived in Seville disguised as a poor student named Lindoro in order to woo Rosina, the ward of the pompous Dr. Bartolo who plans to marry her himself. Almaviva enlists the help of Figaro in winning Rosina’s affections. Together they trick Dr. Bartolo and the Count marries Rosina.