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Article: Review: LVO's 'Barber of Seville' is loaded with laughs
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- Oakland Tribune
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- October 13, 2008
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For anyone looking for a break from the grim economic news, I can
think of no better remedy than one of the four remaining
performances of the Livermore Valley Opera's jolly production of
Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," continuing this week in that
city's impressive two-year-old Bankhead Theater. Such a break could
seem more like a holiday.
This 1816 comic opera, with a libretto by France's inimitable
satirist Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, is one's of the
world's greatest, most enduring musical comedies. A work in which
both music and drama are matched to a fare-thee-well, it bubbles
over with irresistibly ebullient tunes and effervescent
orchestration.
While the LVO production ...