![]() With a libretto by Giuseppe Petrosellini, Paisiello’s Barber stays true to its Beaumarchais roots, focusing more faithfully on the love story between the Count and Rosina and less on the Barber’s antics. On Site Opera launched The Figaro Project with a new production of Giovanni Paisiello’s The Barber of Seville (1782). ![]() The Figaro Project aimed to reacquaint audiences with their favorite Beaumarchais’ characters in unexpected and new ways in non-traditional venues across New York City. In 2015, On Site Opera embarked on The Figaro Project, a three-year cycle of lesser-known operatic adaptations of French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais’ (1732-1799) famed trilogy of Figaro plays: The Barber of Seville (1775), The Marriage of Figaro (1784) and The Guilty Mother (1792).
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