| There is all the more reason for thinking this because here at the Teatro San Carlo we’re reviving a memorable production which first came into being at this theatre in 1998 thanks to the creativity of stage director Filippo Crivelli, set designer Lele Luzzati and costume designer Santuzza Calì, To quote Crivelli, who passed away last February in his native Milan after a busy career during which he gave so much to opera, “We offer a version of Rossini that is not at all grotesque, is entertaining without being excessively so, in which comedy does not descend into farce, the recitatives are treated and performed like prose, and the objects and furniture created by Luzzati contribute to creating situations that are absurd but never meaningless”. I would like to make his words my own and add that it is only possible to see Il barbiere in this way if the singers are up to the task. Here I could ask for nothing better, with the excellent voices and theatrical credibility of Xabier Anduaga, Carlo Lepore, Jessica Pratt, Davide Luciano and Riccardo Fassi. |
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