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Baritone

Clarence Frazer

Figaro

Tenor

Antonio Figueroa

The Count of Almaviva

Mezzo-soprano

Sylvia Szadovszki

Rosina

Bass

Peter McGillivray

Doctor Bartolo

Giles Tomkins

Don Basilio

Soprano

Geneviève Lévesque

Berta

Conductor

Timothy Vernon

Stage director

Morris Panych

Costume designer

Dana Osborne

Set designer

Ken MacDonald

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Il barbiere di Siviglia -  (The Barber of Seville)

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Il barbiere di Siviglia Rossini

The Barber of Seville

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Peter McGillivray (Bartolo), Clarence Frazer (Figaro), Antonio Figueroa (Almaviva) & Sylvia Szadovszki (Rosina) in Pacific Opera Victoria's Barber of Seville

Barber of Seville

Rossini’s rollicking comedy, filled with earworm-inducing music, is an exuberant conspiracy on behalf of the delirious joy of first love.Royal TheatreFebruar...

Saskatchewan-born, baritone Peter McGillivray is a seasoned performing artist who first burst on to the scene as winner of the CBC Young Performers Competition in 2003. A former member of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio and alumnus of the University of Toronto, he has also spent a season on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera (La Bohème & Capriccio). Recent credits include a Dora-Award nomination for Best Actor for the Canadian Stage’s The Overcoat, and work with Calgary Opera (Pagliacci, Moby Dick & Silent Night), Manitoba Opera (La Bohème), Edmonton Opera (Die Fledermaus, La Cenerentola, Hansel & Gretel), Vancouver Opera (Albert Herring, The Overcoat, La Cenerentola), Pacific Opera Victoria (Barber of Seville, Fidelio), Dallas Opera (Moby Dick), Opéra de Québec (Madama Butterfly, Le barbier de Séville), Opera Lyra Ottawa (La Bohème, Barber of Seville) & the Canadian Opera Company (Gianni Schicchi). His pre-pandemic 2019-20 season included stints with Calgary Opera (La Bohème) and Edmonton Opera (Marriage of Figaro). During the pandemic he has kept busy, recording Gareth Williams’ Rocking Horse Winner with Tapestry Opera, filming Elizabeth Raum’s The Garden of Alice for Pacific Opera Victoria as well as teaching voice at Laurentian University and hosting the weekly music program Vocal Point with Peter McGillivray on CKLU 96.7FM in Sudbury.

The Barber of Seville by Rossini, From (2016/2016), Directed by Morris Panych,, Conductor Timothy Vernon, Royal Theatre, Victoria, Canada

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