The Roosevelt Island Youth Program, Beacon will host the New York Opera Forum in a free concert performance of Il Barbiere Di Siviglia by Gioacchino Rossini (The Barber Of Seville) Tuesday December 16 starting 6 PM at PS/IS 217’s auditorium (645 Main Street)
Image From Roosevelt Island Youth Program Beacon You’re invited. The Metropolitan Opera provides this synopsis of The Barber Of Seville:
… Act I
Seville. Count Almaviva comes in disguise to the house of Doctor Bartolo and serenades Rosina, whom Bartolo keeps confined to the house, beneath her balcony window. Figaro the barber, who knows all the towns secrets and scandals, arrives. He explains to Almaviva that Rosina is Bartolos ward, not his daughter, and that the doctor intends to marry her. Figaro devises a plan: the count will disguise himself as a drunken soldier with orders to be quartered at Bartolos house so that he may gain access to the girl. Almaviva is excited and Figaro looks forward to a nice cash pay-off….
and video excerpt
from Barber Of Seville English language performance.