Back by popular demand – Sir Thomas Allen’s sell-out Barber returns for a second run. This vivacious and cheerful production is bright with the colours of southern Spain and packed with one fast-paced comic scene after another.

Count Almaviva has fallen in love with the young and beautiful Rosina but she is kept under lock and key by her guardian, Dr Bartolo, who has it in mind to marry her himself. Figaro, the local barber and resident ‘fixer’, signs up to help the rescue mission and has soon invented an outrageously complicated scheme to smuggle Almaviva into Bartolo’s house, and to smuggle Rosina out, right under her guardian’s nose…

With energetic ensembles, high-speed patter and lively coloratura arias, Rossini’s masterpiece is the perfect vehicle for a fantastic ensemble cast, including Ville Rusanen (Guglielmo in 2009’s Cosi fan tutte), Tiziano Bracci and Thomas Walker (Mustafa and Lindoro in 2009’s The Italian Girl in Algiers), and Claire Booth (Dorinda in 2011’s Orlando).

REVIVAL OF THE 2007 PRODUCTION