Opening on Friday, April 23, SF Opera presents a newly adapted production of Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville in a drive-in setting on the grounds of the Marin Center in San Rafael. Bass-baritones Sly and Pisaroni, both tall and handsome, engaged in convincing combat, and sopranos Sierra and Oropesa were beauteous and appealing.The acclaimed San Francisco Opera stages its first live opera performances in more than a year this weekend, and it is doing so in Marin County.
Singing from the heart, the entire ensemble was at its thespian best.
Opera Warhorses Mozart’s ‘Figaro’ a welcome return to S.F. Oropesa does this convincingly, as well as affectingly singing Susanna’s great aria, Deh vieni, non tardar. San Francisco Classical Voice Review: San Francisco Opera’s Youthful Cast Excels in “Marriage of Figaro” June 16, 2015Īs the center of most everything that happens in the opera, a Susanna must convey wit, intelligence and spark. Her "Deh vieni, non tardar" was unstrained and she managed to do a perfect martial arts flip of Figaro when she loses her temper with him later in the act. Her voice has a gorgeous delicate quality to it but still has volume. SFGate Figaro Charms in Well-Cast S.F. Her duet with the Count at the beginning of Act 3, in which Susanna pretends to be willing to accept his advances, was a particular high point. Soprano Lisette Oropesa was a superb Susanna, singing with both delicacy and quick-witted allure. Pre-Opera Talks are free to ticketholders and take place in the Opera House in the Orchestra section, 55 minutes prior to curtain.Īudio excerpts are from the 2010 performance of The Marriage of Figaro with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Nicola Luisotti. Sung in Italian with English supertitles Approximate running time: 3 hours, 40 minutes including two intermissions Patrick Summers, whose Figaro was celebrated for its “dramatic pace, musical discernment and unfailing good taste” (Sydney Morning Herald), conducts. Luca Pisaroni, known for his “impressive natural gifts” and “masterful intelligence and taste” (Opera News) is the lecherous Count, with the charismatic Nadine Sierra as his Countess and Lisette Oropesa as Figaro’s saucy love Susanna. The cast is led by Philippe Sly as Figaro, a “gifted and accomplished” singer who has “the ability to combine virility and tenderness in a single phrase” (San Francisco Chronicle). In the process, two very different couples learn humbling lessons about life and love. Mozart's warmest, wisest opera is one of the composer’s most graceful creations-a tender comedy in which a countess and her servant join forces to punish her aristocrat husband for his philandering. MUSIC BY WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
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