Sunday, January 29, 2017 3:00 pm

Sunday, January 29th Boheme Opera NJ presents a semi-staged production of Rossini's Barber of Seville with chamber orchestra at College of New Jersey Mildred  and Ernest E Mayo Concert Hall starting at 3 PM.

                                            

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Don’t miss this English-sung Rossini classic:   The Barber of Seville


Boheme Opera NJ is delighted to present two semi-staged performances of Gioacchino Rossini's scintillating comic opera masterpiece, The Barber of Seville. The performances will take place in two different venues. The first performance will take place on Sunday, January 29, 2017, 3pm at Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall on the campus of The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Rd, Ewing, NJ 08628. Members of the Boheme Opera Orchestra will be on stage with the cast and Boheme Opera Men's Chorus Ensemble. Artistic Director Joseph Pucciatti will conduct, assisted by Howard Zogott as Stage Director. There will be a Mayo Concert Hall lobby reception for audience members directly after the production.  Reserved tickets for the performance are $50 and $30, now conveniently available online at http://bit.ly/BONJ_Barber_TCNJ and beginning January 3, also via TCNJ’s Audience Services Specialist at (609) 771-2585.  Physical box office opens on January 23 after college break, with hours being Mon-Fri: 5:00pm to 9:00pm and Tues & Fri: 11:30am – 1:30pm. Tickets will be available at the door one hour prior.

The second performance will take place on Saturday, February 4, 2017, 7pm at Cherry Hill West High School, 2101 Chapel Ave, Cherry Hill, NJ  08002.  This will be Boheme Opera’s debut main stage appearance in Camden County to expand its visibility beyond Central Jersey.  General admission tickets for this performance are $35 with student price at $10.  Ticket purchases are online only at: thebarber2017.brownpapertickets.com.  Tickets will be available at the door one hour prior.

This production of The Barber of Seville features an international cast. The title role of Figaro, the barber will be sung by baritone Jose Adan Perez of Mexico, who has sung a number of leading roles at the Opera de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, LA Opera, New York City Opera, Aspen Music Festival and in several European houses.  Rosina will be sung by Korean soprano Sungji Kim, who has sung over 20 roles in the operas at the venues of the Castleton Music Festival under Lorin Maazel, San Francisco Opera Center, Annapolis Opera Concert Opera Philadelphia, Boheme Opera NJ, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Berliner Philharmonie Grasser Saal. Iceland native tenor Thor Arbjornsson will sing the role of Count Almaviva.  He recently sang the 21st Annual Bel Canto Opera Concert with Maestro Eve Queler and went on to sing one of the lead roles in the premier of Sheila Silver’s operatic adaptation of the New York Times bestseller, A Thousand Splendid Suns.  Greek baritone Stefanos Koroneos will portray Dr. Bartolo.  He has performed throughout Italy in leading roles, and has performed internationally as Barone in La Traviata with the Bolshoi Theater directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and at the Athens Concert Hall under the baton of Richard Bonynge. Korean bass Paul An will be heard as Don Basilio, having sung over sixty roles on the operatic and concert stage across the globe.    Area soprano Cecelia Tepping is Bertha.      -over-

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