Before Count Almaviva became a baritone and a lecher, he was a tenor and bit of a stalker. As Rossini's The Barber of Seville is an operatic adaptation of the first play in Beaumarchais's Figaro trilogy, it's hard not to make comparisons with Mozart's version of its continuation, The Marriage of Figaro, which came 30 [...]
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:23AM on March 10, 2012