The comic opera, considered one of the composer’s greatest works, will have its premiere at the inaugural Bradford Opera Festival
Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber Of Seville will be sung in a newly adapted Yorkshire dialect for the first time, it has been announced.
The comic opera has been adapted by Ian McMillan, the Yorkshire poet and playwright, and will have its premiere at the inaugural Bradford Opera Festival this November.
The famous tale of class, marriage, mischief and young love, originally written by Rossini in Italian, will be performed at the city’s St George’s Hall.
Considered one of Rossini’s greatest operas, The Barber of Seville’s mischievous libretto “was just made for the poetic tones of The Sublime Tyke Talk,” Mr McMillan said.