The Barber of Seville

Opera Australia's The Barber of Seville is opera at its light-hearted, effervescent best - a riotous romp along the road to true love- coming to the Redland Performing Arts Centre, Cleveland on Saturday, July 22, 2023.

The musical masterpiece features a storyline that would be equally at home in a Hollywood rom-com.

Count Almaviva is wealthy, stealthy and head over heels. Smitten Rosina is witty and pretty with razor-sharp smarts. She is also inconveniently betrothed. They need a plan. Time to call on: Fi-ga-ro! Figaro! Figaro!

Beyond haircuts and beard trims, this canny barber is also the city’s matchmaking maestro! It takes all his clever disguises, subterfuge, and scheming to wrangle a romantic encounter for the would-be lovers. 

These irrepressibly funny characters will be brought to life by Opera Australia’s finest voices, with a live orchestra performing the score that is instantly familiar from renditions in movies, cartoons and commercials.

If you like Downton Abbey, Sliding Doors, clever disguises gone wrong and a case of mistaken identities, you will love The Barber of Seville!

Good to know - The Barber of Seville is sung in Italian with English subtitles.

Images by Georges Antoni, courtesy of Opera Australia

The Barber of Seville is an Opera Australia and Opera Queensland production presented by Redland Performing Arts Centre.

Redland Performing Arts Centre is a valued partner of Must Do Brisbane.com