A barber with a razor-sharp wit and a woman who refuses to be owned—Rossini's comedy of chaos.
This is Laurent Pelly’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées staging of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, with a cast featuring Florian Sempey as Figaro, Catherine Trottmann as Rosina, and Michele Angelini as Il Conte Almaviva. Jérémie Rhorer conducts Le Cercle de l-Harmonie.
Acting
Sempey's Figaro is pure theatrical caffeine—charming, chaotic, unstoppable.
Direction
Pelly's staging is candy-colored anarchy; doors slam, stairs spin, pure farce.
Score
Rhorer conducts with razor precision—Rossini's overture never sounded this alive.
Director
François Roussillon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rossini wrote this opera in roughly two weeks at age 23, and it premiered in 1816 to a famously disastrous opening night—audience riots, onstage mishaps, the works.
Pelly's production leans hard into commedia dell'arte visual language, connecting Rossini's Seville to a lineage of Italian theatrical masks and physical comedy.
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