ANDStay at work on TV. Tonight on Rai 3 – from 9.05 pm – in fact he returns stage THEthe Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini, in the preparation of 2023 edited by director Hugo de Ana For the Arena of Veronaincluding costumes and scenes. On the podium, To direct the orchestra, there is the Italian Alessandro Bonato.
The Barber of Seville On Rai 3, Genesis of Rossini’s work
Impossible not to know the symphonies of this brilliant work of 1775, which has French origins but boasts spirit and structure of the comedy of the art of Carlo Goldoni. The Barber of Seville or the useless precaution It comes from the mind by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732 – 1799). A playwright whose adventurous biography It seems to be taken from one of the characters of his works. After a marriage of convenience with a rich widow, De Beaumarchais entered the graces of Louis XV becoming a music teacher of the Bourbon princesses.
Accused of financial speculations, he underwent two processes and, with the French revolution, lost all honoring charge. The Genesis de The Barber of Seville was born from a personal experience of its author, in particular of One of his sisters, abandoned to the altar by an unscrupulous man.
Gioacchino Rossini, the most important Italian composer of the first half of the nineteenth century, He fell in love with the story And he composed the comedy in two acts at the age of 23. The debut in 1816 He attracted many criticisms. The reason? Having dared to challenge the older colleague, Giovanni Paisiello, who only 10 years earlier had staged the same work.
“The barber of Seville” staged at the Verona Arena in 2023. (Getty Images)
The barber of Seville, Plot of the great work of the Arena di Verona
The work takes place in Seville. The beautiful and virtuous Rosina lives in the house of Don Bartolothe elderly and greedy guardian. Man holds her with him only For administer its huge heritage. The Count of Almaviva is in love with her. To try to approach it, It presents itself under the false name of Lindoro And he begins to dedicate them of the serenas. Don Bartolo, terrified of losing the young man’s money because of the mysterious Lindoro, asks her to marry him but she refuses.
Figaro thinks about the two loversbarber and trusted man by Don Bartolo. He recommends to the Count to disguise himself as a soldier on a somewhat dried leave and to enter with an excuse of the elderly man’s house. At the same time, Rosina gives Figaro a letter to Lindoro. However, the plan fails and Don Bartolo calls the guards. The man does not lose heart and this time disguises himself as a music teacher, presenting himself to Rosina as Don Alonso.
To help the friend, Figaro distracts the landlord with the excuse of the shaving. Rosina believes that the Count has no serious intentions and therefore accepts impulse The marriage proposal of his elderly guardianThat He immediately runs to call the notary. Due to yet another and lucky misunderstanding, The professional thinks that Rosina and the con marry each otherte d’Almaviva. The two, like this, They finally become husband and wife. When the new bride declares that he does not want the heritage of his beloved, Don Bartolo also participates with joy in the celebrations.
The direction of Hugo de Ana and the cast of the work on Rai 3
The link between Rossini’s work, the Arena of Verona and the Argentine director is very solid. Hugo De Ana staged The Barber of Seville for the arena since 2007. One grandiose scenographywith a garden decorated in Rococo style e A film touch to Peter Greenaway (The mystery of the Giardini di Compton House). There is no shortage Very bright colors costumes Like this fun intertwining comedy.
In the artistic cast stand out Dalibor Jenis in the role of Figaro. Lithuanian baritone, with a long hair, is Much appreciated for his deep and warm voice. Vasilisa Berzhanskaya is Rosina: The Russian mezzosoprano has just conquered the demanding audience of the Milan Scala in The strength of fate by Giuseppe Verdi. The tenor from Messina Antonino Siragusa It is the Count of Almaviva. The Rossinian character is his role of election.
To direct the orchestra And the chorus of the Arena Foundation is there Maestro Alessandro Bonato. Born in Verona in 1995at only 25 years old He was the youngest main director of a concert institution Italianthe Marche Philharmonic Orchestra. Next September will direct the Haydn orchestra – with the participation of the trumpeter Paolo Fresu – in the’Musical event The sounds of the Dolomites 2025.