Discover Damiano Michieletto's contemporary version of Gioacchino Rossini's famous opera
From 12 September to 5 November 2026, the Opéra Bastille revives Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini's most famous opera, "The Barber of Seville", first performed in 1816 at Rome's Teatro Argentina. Adapted from the play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the production plunges audiences into 18th-century Venice, where the mischievous barber Figaro uses various stratagems to help Count Almaviva seduce the woman he covets: Rosine. An opera presented under the musical direction of Jader Bignamini / François López-Ferrer (September 23 and 26) in a contemporary staging by Damiano Michieletto.
Opera in Italian, surtitled in French and English.
