Elegant comedy this is not.
The New Penguin Opera Guide“stressed slapstick gags rather than elegant comedy.”that opened Saturday night at the Winspear Opera House goes all in for slapstick gags. If the company’s recentseems determined to fill every moment with muggings and scurryings, leaps and lurches, even some line-dance hoofings. The large audience audibly had a hoot at antics to make a TV sitcom look prim and proper. An elegant comedy of manners — what Rossini surely intended — this is not.
The opera’s eponym is, as we’d say, a real “operator,” a barber/factotum who performs all kinds of services. But Lucas Meachem makes Figaro more overbearing than sneaky, and his hefty, handsome baritone isn’t always careful with rhythms. Wallis Giunta emphasizes Rosina’s feistiness at the expense of her sweeter side. Her soprano-ish mezzo really blooms on high, but is a bit hollow in lower register.
The opera’s real comic role is the doctor Bartolo, who’s clearly too old and foolish to be marrying his young ward Rosina. My pick for star performer in thisAdam Lau is appropriately uptight, with a dense bass, for the opportunist music teacher Don Basilio. Courtney Maina is a young version of Bartolo’s maid Berta, but she sings affectingly. Prosper Makhanya gives Almaviva’s servant Fiorello an attractively granular baritone.
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