It was just one year ago that opera soprano Jacinta Barbachano performed in San Miguel de Allende as the youthful and highly desirable single Rosina in “The Barber of Saville.” One year on, she will have to age 10 years as the story resumes this weekend in “The Marriage of Figaro.”
Older but wiser, as they say.
For soprano Barbachano that may well be the key to her character, the now Countess Rosina, in the highly anticipated Pro Musica production of “The Marriage of Figaro.”
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There is a comedy – a musical sitcom – about a powerful man who believes he has the right to do whatever he wants to women.
It’s a sequel, in fact, that gives off a sort of a bro-boy’s “Your body, my choice” vibe.
But the women in this comedy are smart and savvy, with a sort of a “Me too” vibe. They know how to stand up to power in clever ways. They know how to work the angles on the patriarchy.
And, no, it is not called “Trump’s Second Term.”
The musical is actually an opera and it was written in 1786. A huge hit in its day. Now, it is considered one of the greatest operas of all time.
Apparently, things haven’t changed all that much in the last 239 years.
The opera is Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
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