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Smash-cut to… Take two. Almaviva puts on a disguise… again. Listen up for arias featuring Olympic vocal feats such as rapid-fire melodies or long, extended phrases where each syllable takes up several notes and the singer has to stretch their vocal range from the highest to the lowest extreme…and then back again.
Keep in mind: Lots of bel canto arias were written in two parts, so when a soloist starts singing a lovely, lilting tune, you can bet a cabaletta —a galloping melody with occasional freewheeling improvisation—will follow. Is he able to fool you at any point during the show? How the set, costume, and lighting designs help recreate seventeenth-century Seville and give you hints about the story and its characters.
Do the sets and costumes give you any clues about the differences in social class between someone like Figaro and someone like Bartolo?
Does the lighting provide you with a sense of how hot it must be in sunny Spain? The moments of speech-like singing that occur between songs.
Hint: Think plucked strings and swirling winds. Think About This Who exactly is the hero of The Barber of Seville? Does the story have more than one protagonist? Marchette Chute. Prosper Merimee. The Robbers and Wallenstein. Friedrich Schiller. Elective Affinities. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxims and Reflections. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr.
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Basilio suggests that they spread malicious rumors about the Count. Figaro tells Rosina that Lindoro is his cousin and adds that the young man is deeply in love with her.
Rosina is delighted and gives him a note to deliver to the supposed Lindoro. The Count arrives in his soldier's disguise, only to discover that Dr. Bartolo is exempt from housing the military. Almaviva slips Rosina a note, which Bartolo sees, but Rosina smartly substitutes the laundry list.
The noise from the ensuing confusion attracts the police, and the Count avoids arrest only by secretly revealing his identity to an officer.
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