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The Barber of Seville from Glyndebourne

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18/12/2016

BBC Four - The Barber of Seville from Glyndebourne

Rossini's comic opera traces the efforts of Figaro to win his master his chosen bride.

Rossini's great comic opera traces the efforts of clever Figaro to win his master, Count Almaviva, his chosen bride. But he meets his match in the crafty would-be bride Rosina.

Two hundred years after its premiere in Rome in 1816, Rossini's great comic opera The Barber of Seville took to the stage as part of the 2016 Glyndebourne Festival. The opera traces the efforts of clever Figaro to win his master, Count Almaviva, his chosen bride. But he meets his match in the crafty would-be bride Rosina, who is already plotting to escape her guardian Dr Bartolo.

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