The season opener is as much fun as you can have at the opera.
Lyric Opera has married pitch-perfect casting to go-for-broke direction in its season opener, The Barber of Seville. Thanks to that, and Gioachino Rossini's brilliant score, this 200-year-old satire, peopled with what could be stock characters in a conventional plot of forbidden but victorious young love, bounces uproariously to life. First, the cast: Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa—she of the liquid-silver voice and sterling dramatic chops—is the opera's gutsy ingenue, Rosina.…
The season opener is as much fun as you can have at the opera.
Lyric Opera has married pitch-perfect casting to go-for-broke direction in its season opener, The Barber of Seville. Thanks to that, and Gioachino Rossini's brilliant score, this 200-year-old satire, peopled with what could be stock characters in a conventional plot of forbidden but victorious young love, bounces uproariously to life. First, the cast: Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa—she of the liquid-silver voice and sterling dramatic chops—is the opera's gutsy ingenue, Rosina.…