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Tara Erraught's Rosina steals the show in hilarious Rossini Barber

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Reviewed at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin on 20 April 2016
Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia
Wide Open Opera
Fergus Sheil, Conductor
Michael Barker Caven, Director
Jamie Vartan, Set Designer
Gavan Ring, Figaro
Tara Erraught, Rosina
Tyler Nelson, Count Almaviva
Graeme Danby, Dr Bartolo
John Molloy, Don Basilio
Mary O'Sullivan, Berta
Brendan Collins, Fiorello
Chorus of Wide Open Opera
Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera
Sinéad Wallace, Lighting Designer
The Last Hotel at the Edinburgh Festival
***11
Nixon in China lands in Dublin for triumphant Irish première
****1
Regents Opera’s Salome lands a knockout punch at York Hall
****1
Art imitates art in ETO's bracing new Pagliacci
****1
Handel's Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome
****1
Innocence: Saariaho’s final opera receives New York premiere
*****
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