KIRO Newsradio's Heather Bosch spoke with key people involved in Seattle Opera's production of 'The Barber of Seville.'
It’s an opera with music so catchy it’s been featured in everything from movies to cartoons and remains popular more than 100 years after it was written.The conductor of the show, Valentina Peleggi, said the music of fellow Italian Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” is so infectious and catchy that she anticipates it even as she approaches the podium.
Peleggi compared the pulsing energy of the music to bubbling wine, “that really drives the drama but also drives your heartbeat.”That driving rhythm is not just coming from the orchestra pit. Mezzo-soprano Megan Moore plays the part of Rosina. “It’s a very physical production,” Director Lindy Hume said. “It’s a very interesting juggling act, this one.”“No, it’s about bringing the story to life,” she said.It comes complete with a familiar rom-com plot.
“Comedy does not age well, normally, but some of these jokes, these visual jokes and musical jokes, are still really sweet,” she said. “If you get them right, you feel like you’ve really achieved some kind of weird time travel situation.”“I think it’s a joy and an honor for us as creators to invite the audience to just escape from their lives and just enjoy this beautiful, fun, funny, hilarious, heartwarming — and very human, as well — story,” Moore said.
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