FULL IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA adapted for children and in Spanish La Plata 2024 Constanza Diaz Falu, Gabriel Carasso, Patricio Oliveira, Roman Modzelewski
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA adapted for children and in Spanish or El Barbero de Sevilla adaptada para las infancias
- Composer: Rossini
- Libretto: Sterbini Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Sala Alberto Ginastera, Centro Provincial de las Artes Teatro Argentino, La Plata, Argentine
- Recorded: July 20, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Constanza Diaz Falu, Gabriel Carasso, Patricio Oliveira, Roman Modzelewski, Walter Schwarz, Cecilia Perez San Martin, Rodolfo Pettinicchio, Franco Gomez, Nicolas Tumini, Lautaro Chaparro, Juan Pablo Labourdette, Alvaro Garcia Martinez
- Conductor: Bernardo Teruggi
- Orchestra: Camerata Académica del Teatro Argentino
- Stage Director: María Jaunarena
- Stage Designer: Gonzalo Córdova
- Costume Designer: Elizabeth Tarasewicz
- Lighting Designer: Gabriel Lorenti
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Centro Provincial de las Artes Teatro Argentino
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
María Jaunarena says: “The Barber of Seville is one of the most famous and beloved operas. It is a comedy of entanglements based on the first part of the enormous theatrical trilogy by Beaumarchais, a French writer contemporary of Mozart, who used humour as a ‘weapon of war’. And it proved to be effective. The Barber of Seville – the first of the three works that tell the story of the character – contains the foundations of his masterpiece: The Marriage of Figaro, a biting comedy focused on social inequalities and a relentless denunciation of the nobility of the time. So much so that, according to Napoleon himself, it was not the storming of the Bastille that caused the French Revolution, but none other than Beaumarchais’ Figaro, that shameless barber who on stage told counts and countesses what no one dared to tell them in real life.”
As for the purposes of this proposal, the adapter and stage director points out: “We seek to bridge the generational gap that exists today between classical music and what interests our children. Our goal is to become a vehicle so that they can also enjoy one of the most beloved, fun and celebrated scores of all time. And, above all, so that they can participate in content that has permeated us culturally for more than two centuries and that has the potential and invaluable virtue of raising the emotional and intellectual horizon at which we look, triggering, if we are lucky, an inspiring question that opens another door to their own creativity, which is always waiting to be called.”