S.F. Opera readies pandemic-era production of ‘Barber of Seville’
Arts presenters are coming up with myriad ways to return to live performance, with none perhaps quite as innovative as San Francisco Opera’s new staging of “The Barber of Seville.”
Designed to be performed on a custom-built stage at the Marin Center, this ambitious production of Rossini’s comic opera opens this weekend for in-person performances while adhering to strict pandemic guidelines.
Like the company’s recent presentations of archival performances streamed at Fort Mason, audiences will be in their cars, drive-in style. But the similarities end there. This is a live production, and director Matthew Ozawa says it’s something entirely new.