Composor Gioachino Rossini
Libretto Cesare Sterbini
Director Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier
Designer Christian Fenouillat
Conductor Rafael Payare
   
Rosina Aigul Akhmetshina 
Figaro Andrzej Filonczyk 
Count Almaviva Lawrence Brownlee 
Don Basilio Bryn Terfel 
   
  Sung in Italian with French subtitles

When Rosina falls in love with a mysterious young suitor who calls himself Lindoro, she must use all her cunning – and a little help from her local barber – to outwit her calculating guardian Dr Bartolo.
Expect heart-melting serenades, ridiculous disguises and a fairytale ending waiting just out of reach. From the barber’s famous opening number ‘Largo al factotum,’ with its cry of ‘Figaro! Figaro!,’ to Rosina’s feisty aria ‘Una voce poco fa,’ Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera is a riotously entertaining affair. Rafael Payare makes his Royal Opera House debut conducting an outstanding international cast that includes Andrzej Filonczyk, Aigul Akhmetshina, Lawrence Brownlee and Bryn Terfel.