>February Events / Art & Theatre / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk February 11, 2015

The Merry Opera Company returns to East Anglia

***The* *Barber of Seville***

Hot on the heels of last year’s Kiss me, Figaro! which garnered 5 star reviews and sent our audiences home both smiling and moved, Merry Opera is delighted to present Rossini’s Barber of Seville, a classic which fizzes with musical brilliance, bold humour and famous tunes.

Join us to follow the escapades of the quick witted and irrepressible Figaro as he untangles the fortunes of a beautiful and feisty but imprisoned heiress, her greedy and lecherous guardian and the love-struck but always inventive Count Almaviva.

Given the ‘Merry Opera treatment’ a large shaving brush is really a chair, a giant hair tonic bottle provides Rosina’s balcony and prison, and a plethora of fashionable moustaches and stylish frocks invigorate Rossini’s great masterpiece of comic opera to delight both connoisseurs and opera newcomers.

Previous reviewers have said:

‘This is opera for people who don’t like opera, but more interestingly it’s also opera for those that love it’. The New Statesman
‘A great evening out, with a terrific cast of talented young singers.‘ David Mellor, Mail on Sunday

Director: John Ramster

Music Director & pianist: Stephen Hose

Assistant Director / Stage Manager: Hannah Noone

Set Design: Louis Carver

Costume Design: Michelle Bradbury

Lighting Design: Derek Carlyle

Cast: René Bloice-Sanders as Figaro, Oliver Brignall as the Notary (u/s Count Almaviva), Dario Dugandžić as Ambrogio/Fiorello (u/s Basilio), Helen Évora as Rosina, Christopher Faulkner as An Officer (u/s Bartolo)Lawrence Olsworth-Peter as Count Almaviva, Amy J Payne as Berta (U/s Rosina), Matthew Quirk as Basilio, Daniel Roddick as Bartolo and James Williams as Ambrogio/Fiorello (u/s Figaro)