Opera Review: Nickel City Opera's Production of "The Barber of Seville"
The Nickel City Opera Triumphs With A Slapstick Romp Through Rossini's Classic Opera Buffa
Beaumarchais’ Play
I begin with “The Barber of Seville’s” source material, Beaumarchais’ (1732-1799) eponymous play. Although sanitized 100 years later for Rossini’s audience, Beaumarchais’ “Barber” is a subversive, radical satire intended to mock feudal society and radically suggest that all people have agency in the world.
Almaviva and Figaro meet ear…