The SF Opera revived yesterday its 2003 production of the Barber of Seville, with Nathan Gunn returning in the role of Figaro. 2003, you say? Indeed, smack in the heart of the Rosenberg era, which means a re-invented version of the popular opera, set in some period best desribed as achronistic, rather than anachronistic: the set is the star of the show, a beautiful, white two story house which spins on its axis to......

The Marriage of Figaro is the sequel to The Barber of Seville. Not in the operatic world, where Mozart wrote the Marriage before Rossini did the Barber, but in the Beaumarchais plays upon which the two librettos were based. The two operas thus share the lead character, Figaro, a cunning servant quick on his feet and with his wits. Now, we all know where we are going with this: the last Figaro on the SF......