Figaro knows everybody and everybody’s business. He’s the ultimate wag, an insider, a fixer. Today, he’s the guy who passes out business cards, makes promises and makes good on his word. In short, ...

For more than 200 years, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” have been among the best-known operas in the world, with comical stories and lively music ...

Veteran director Chuck Hudson brings his background as a devoted student of legendary French mime artist Marcel Marceau to ...

When Filippo Fontana was a young clarinetist growing up in Udine, Italy, he went to a hometown production of “The Barber of Seville.” “I remember Figaro coming out of the audience,” he says, “and ...

Figaro, Figaro, Fiiiigggaarrro! He’s Seville’s “King of Lather and Foam” and master of a few other tricks as well. Barber by day, matchmaker by night, Figaro puts his wiles to work as he aids Count ...

“The Barber of Seville” opera was based on a 1775 play of the same name by French satirist Pierre Beaumarchais. It’s the ...

The Barber of Seville showers its stage – and later, its audience – with gobs of (fake) dollar bills. And, in case there’s any fear of The Barber of Seville taking itself too seriously, Font’s staging ...