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Opera Australia’s The Barber of Seville is remarkable musical theatre at its best

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Reviewed at Sydney Opera House: Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney on 24 March 2011
Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia
Opera Australia
Anthony Legge, Conductor
Elijah Moshinsky, Director
Opera Australia Chorus
Opera Australia Orchestra
José Carbó, Figaro
Dominica Matthews, Rosina
John Longmuir, Count Almaviva
Jud Arthur, Don Basilio
Andrew Moran, Dr Bartolo
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