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Forced farce: Arden's Barber opens up shop at Glyndebourne

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“Alessandro Corbelli's Bartolo is still a tour de farce”
Reviewed at Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne on 22 May 2016
Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Enrique Mazzola, Conductor
Annabel Arden, Director
Joanna Parker, Set Designer
Björn Bürger, Figaro
Danielle de Niese, Rosina
Taylor Stayton, Count Almaviva
Alessandro Corbelli, Dr Bartolo
Christophoros Stamboglis, Don Basilio
Janis Kelly, Berta
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová
***11
All the world’s a jest: Falstaff returns to Glyndebourne
***11
A strong new Figaro opens at Glyndebourne
****1
Glyndebourne's Saul still packs a punch 10 years on
*****
Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal
****1
Glyndebourne’s season opens with Rossini’s Barber of Seville
*****
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