蜜芽传媒

Frances Fyfield is in Italy looking at the score of one of the most popular staples of Opera Houses across the globe, Rossini's The Barber of Seville. There are plenty of surprises in store as Bass Baritone singer Simone Alberghini discovers that age-old Figaro performing traditions have nothing to do with what Rossini actually wrote in the score. They are joined by Rossini scholars Daniela Macchione and Stefano Castelvecchi and the museum curator Enrico Tabellini.

First broadcast on Tales From the Stave, 3 December 2016.