Performer: Yuriy Tsiple

Ligeti's “anti-anti opera” opens in Zurich in a new production by Tatjana Gürbaca. 

Questionable identities, clandestine messages, love and money are the stuffs of Gioacchino Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, revived again in Zurich.

That both the lead and a second key role were ill and couldn’t sing did not bode well, yet this performance of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera shook up the house nonetheless.