More information is available on the opera house's official website. The “musically intelligent and vocally splendid” Anna Caterina Antonacci (The New York Times) and Daveda Karanas with her “large, golden voice” (San Francisco Classical Voice) share the dramatic role of the prophetess Cassandra. The world-class cast stars, as the ill-fated lovers Dido and Aeneas, the “vocally sumptuous and alluring” Susan Graham and Bryan Hymel, who gives “an impassioned and confident performance of a heroic role” (The New York Times). Work - Composer: Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Gioacchino Rossini. David McVicar’s visually striking new production, “a major event” (The Guardian, London), moves the action to the mid-19th century. Production title: The Barber of Seville - San Francisco Opera (2015) Creation date. Former Music Director Donald Runnicles, who masterfully conducted the Ring cycle in 2011, returns to lead this intensely lyrical, colorfully orchestrated, viscerally exciting score. One of the largest, most magnificent pieces in the entire repertory, this rarely staged epic is presented here for the first time in 47 years, the way it was originally meant to be seen: two operas-The Fall of Troy and The Trojans at Carthage-in one spectacular evening! The tragic fall of Troy, the passionate love of two great leaders, the urgent pull of destiny: all unfold as part of Berlioz’s visionary masterpiece-French grand opera's answer to Wagner's Ring.

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