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53-536: The history of Teatro Caupolicán began in 1936, when the Caja de Empleados Públicos (or the resources for public employment), financed the construction of the location for large scale spectacles in Santiago. The theatre has hosted a wide array of types of events. In 1939 there was an opera program which included The Barber of Seville , Madame Butterfly , and Rigoletto . European symphony orchestras have also performed at

106-569: A European tour in support of the album, the band were dropped by Independiente and the project was abandoned. In May 2006, Anderson announced details of a solo album consisting of 11 tracks, which was released on 26 March 2007. He told NME that the title would be Brett Anderson since "...that's my name, you see." The accompanying video for Anderson's first single " Love Is Dead " debuted on UK television in February 2007, quickly finding its way to YouTube. "Love Is Dead" made its debut at No. 42 in

159-608: A fiery forge: the sound of the anvils deafens the ear"). A room in Bartolo's house with a piano Count Almaviva again appears at the doctor's house, this time disguised as Don Alonso, a priest and singing tutor who is substituting for the supposedly ailing Basilio. To gain Bartolo's trust, Don Alonso tells him he has intercepted a note from Lindoro to Rosina, and says that Lindoro is a servant of Count Almaviva who has dishonorable intentions towards Rosina. While Almaviva pretends to give Rosina her singing lesson ("Contro un cor"; "Against

212-435: A heart"), Figaro arrives to shave Bartolo. Not wanting to leave Rosina alone with the singing teacher, Bartolo insists Figaro shave him right there in the music room. Basilio suddenly appears for his scheduled music lesson, but he is bribed by a full purse from Almaviva and persuaded to leave again, with much discussion of how ill he looks. (Quintet: "Don Basilio! – Cosa veggo!"; "Don Basilio! – What do I see?"). Bartolo overhears

265-612: A political forum in Chilean history as well. Former presidents Arturo Alessandri , Eduardo Frei Montalva and Salvador Allende all held rallies in this theatre. Allende's personal secretary recounts the Unidad Popular 's rally held there. Some of these political speeches have been printed and are sold as books. Nobel prize winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda once spoke at this theatre. Neruda's speech had some political content criticizing Argentina in 1944. In 1945 Neruda chose

318-439: A pram that's just been pushed down a hill. It's always been fiery and tempestuous and really on the edge and it never stops. I don't think it ever will." As a solo musician during Suede's career, Anderson collaborated with Stina Nordenstam and his guest vocals can be heard on the album This Is Stina Nordenstam . He also sang a duet with Jane Birkin in 1995 which appeared in 1998 on Birkin's "best of" album. In addition he sang

371-420: A public square outside Bartolo's house a band of musicians and a poor student named Lindoro are serenading, to no avail, the window of Rosina (" Ecco, ridente in cielo "; "There, laughing in the sky"). Lindoro, who is really the young Count Almaviva in disguise, hopes to make the beautiful Rosina love him for himself – not his money. Almaviva pays off the musicians who then depart, leaving him to brood alone. Rosina

424-932: Is a staple of the operatic repertoire Because of a scarcity of true contraltos, the role of Rosina has most frequently been sung by a coloratura mezzo-soprano (with or without pitch alterations, depending on the singer), and has in the past, and occasionally in more recent times, been sung by coloratura sopranos such as Marcella Sembrich , Maria Callas , Roberta Peters , Gianna D'Angelo , Victoria de los Ángeles , Beverly Sills , Lily Pons , Diana Damrau , Edita Gruberová , Kathleen Battle and Luciana Serra . Famous recent mezzo-soprano Rosinas include Marilyn Horne , Teresa Berganza , Frederica von Stade , Lucia Valentini Terrani , Susanne Marsee , Cecilia Bartoli , Joyce DiDonato , Jennifer Larmore , Elīna Garanča , Isabel Leonard and Vesselina Kasarova . Famous contralto Rosinas include Ewa Podleś who made her stage debut in that role. The square in front of Bartolo's house In

477-498: Is an opera buffa in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini . The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais 's French comedy The Barber of Seville (1775). The première of Rossini's opera (under the title Almaviva, o sia L'inutile precauzione ) took place on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina , Rome, with designs by Angelo Toselli . Rossini's Barber of Seville

530-581: Is an English singer best known as the lead singer and primary lyricist of the band Suede . After Suede disbanded in 2003, he fronted the Tears with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler in 2004–2006, and released four solo albums on which he also played guitar and keyboards. Suede re-formed in 2010; they continue to record and tour. Anderson was born and grew up in Lindfield , Sussex , a village two miles (3 km) north-east of Haywards Heath . His mother

583-764: Is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy. (This play was originally conceived as an opéra comique , but was rejected as such by the Comédie-Italienne .) The play as it is now known was premiered in 1775 by the Comédie-Française at the Théâtre des Tuileries in Paris . Other operas based on the first play were composed by Giovanni Paisiello ( in 1782 ), by Nicolas Isouard in 1796, and then by Francesco Morlacchi in 1816. Though

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636-481: Is considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe". After two centuries, it remains a popular work. Rossini's opera recounts the events of the first of the three plays by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais that revolve around the clever and enterprising character named Figaro , the barber of the title. Mozart 's opera The Marriage of Figaro , composed 30 years earlier in 1786,

689-701: Is in the piece of paper in Rosina's hands, but she fools him by handing over her laundry list. Bartolo and the Count argue loudly. Basilio enters; then Figaro, who warns that the noise of the argument is rousing the whole neighborhood. Finally, the noise attracts the attention of the Officer of the Watch and his troops, who crowd into the room. Bartolo demands that the Officer arrest the "drunken soldier". The Officer starts to do so, but Almaviva quietly reveals his true identity to

742-460: Is proof that Lindoro is merely a flunky of Almaviva and is toying with her at Almaviva's behest. Rosina believes the story and agrees to marry Bartolo. During an instrumental interlude, the music creates a thunder storm to indicate the passage of time. Almaviva and Figaro climb up a ladder to the balcony and enter Rosina's room through a window. Rosina accuses Almaviva, whom she believes to be Lindoro, of betraying her. Almaviva reveals his identity and

795-400: Is sometimes transposed a semitone up into F major for coloratura sopranos to perform, giving them the chance to sing extra, almost traditional, cadenzas , sometimes reaching high Ds or even Fs.) Knowing the Count only as Lindoro, Rosina writes to him because she is interested in getting to know him better. As she is leaving the room, Bartolo enters with the music teacher Basilio. Bartolo

848-464: Is suspicious of the Count, and Basilio advises that he be put out of the way by creating false rumours about him (this aria, "La calunnia è un venticello" – "Calumny is a little breeze" – is almost always sung a tone lower than the original D major ). When the two have gone, Rosina and Figaro enter. Figaro asks Rosina to write a few encouraging words to Lindoro, which she has actually already written. (Duet: "Dunque io son...tu non m'inganni?"; "Then I'm

901-511: Is the young ward of the grumpy, elderly Bartolo and she is allowed very little freedom because Bartolo plans to marry her once she is of age and thus appropriate her considerable dowry. Figaro approaches singing (Aria: " Largo al factotum della città"; "Make way for the factotum of the city"). Since Figaro used to be a servant of the Count, the Count asks him for assistance in helping him meet Rosina, offering him money should he be successful in arranging this (duet: "All'idea di quel metallo"; "At

954-490: The New York Philharmonic , Toto , Electric Light Orchestra Part II , Chick Corea , Herbie Hancock , Ghost, Creedence Clearwater Revisited , Green Day , The Ramones and Claudio Arrau . Among the most unusual spectacles there was an attempt to hold a bullfight in 1954 with Peruvian-raised bulls. The theatre was prepared for 20 days in order to prepare a bullring, plenty of sand and dirt. Nevertheless,

1007-584: The Teatro Argentina in Rome on 20 February 1816 was a disaster: the audience hissed and jeered throughout, and several on-stage accidents occurred. Furthermore, many of the audience were supporters of one of Rossini's rivals, the veteran Giovanni Paisiello , who played on mob mentality to provoke the rest of the audience to dislike the opera. Paisiello had already composed The Barber of Seville and took Rossini's new version to be an affront to his version. In particular, Paisiello and his followers were opposed to

1060-580: The "audacity" of the young composer and the work is now forgotten. Rossini was well known for being remarkably productive, completing an average of two operas per year for 19 years, and in some years writing as many as four. Musicologists believe that, true to form, the music for Il barbiere di Siviglia was composed in just under three weeks, although the famous overture was actually recycled from two earlier Rossini operas, Aureliano in Palmira and Elizabeth, Queen of England and thus contains none of

1113-458: The "soldier" that he (Bartolo) has an official exemption which excuses him from the requirement to quarter soldiers in his home. Almaviva pretends to be too drunk and belligerent to understand, and dares Bartolo to brawl. While Bartolo searches his cluttered desk for the official document which would prove his exemption, Almaviva whispers to Rosina that he is Lindoro in disguise, and passes a love-letter to her. Bartolo suspiciously demands to know what

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1166-514: The 2010 Teenage Cancer Trust shows. The band performed warm-up shows at the 100 Club in London and Ritz Ballroom in Manchester, and the success of the shows led to a European tour in the summer of 2010. Further festival dates occurred in 2011, along with UK dates where Suede performed their first three albums in full. In 2004, Anderson and former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler briefly formed

1219-614: The Banshees ' Juju while conceiving the songs. In the early days of Suede's career, Anderson made a comment that he was "a bisexual man who never had a homosexual experience." The recording of Suede's Head Music was plagued with difficulties such as Anderson's addiction to heroin and crack cocaine which showed in his increasingly unpredictable behaviour and gaunt appearance, which contrasted with his previously healthy and androgynous appearance. While Anderson had been taking drugs moderately during Suede's career up to that point, he

1272-637: The Diamonds ), Kris Sonne and Amy Langley, thus giving the songs a more art-rock edge. Black Rainbows – Anderson's fourth solo album was released through BA Songs, distributed by EMI Music Service in September 2011. It was preceded by the single "Brittle Heart". It was the second album Anderson had co-written with Leo Abrahams and it saw a return to a simpler more commercial rock format. Anderson stated that he had taken as reference points some of his old favourite records like PIL 's "Rise", and Siouxsie and

1325-481: The Officer, and he (the Officer) backs off. Bartolo and Basilio are astonished and mystified; Figaro laughs quietly at them. (Finale: "Fredda ed immobile, come una statua"; "Cold and still, just like a statue"). The confusion intensifies and causes everyone to suffer headaches and auditory hallucinations ("Mi par d'esser con la testa in un'orrida fucina; dell'incudini sonore l'importuno strepitar"; "My head seems to be in

1378-582: The Park Theatre. The cast of eight had three other members of his family, including the 17-year-old Maria-Felicia, later known as Maria Malibran . The role of Rosina was originally written for a contralto . According to music critic Richard Osborne, writing in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , "it is important to record the degree to which singers have sometimes distorted Rossini's intentions. The most serious distortion has been

1431-507: The UK charts and in several countries) in 1999, but A New Morning was a commercial disappointment in 2002. In 2003, following the release of their "Singles" collection, Suede disbanded. Anderson commented that the history of Suede is "ridiculous. It's like Machiavelli rewriting Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . It involves a cast of thousands. It should star Charlton Heston ... it's like

1484-430: The UK singles chart, and the album went to No. 54 the following week. The keyboardist-producer on his album is Fred Ball, and former Suede bass player Mat Osman joined the live band on tour. In July 2007 Anderson modelled Nick Hart for Aquascutum's autumn/winter 2007 campaign In May 2008 it was announced that Anderson's second album was to be premiered on 7 July in a special concert at London's Mermaid Theatre. A copy of

1537-618: The album, entitled Wilderness , was distributed to all ticket buyers, in the form of a USB stick . The album was recorded in only seven days, with most tracks recorded as live takes. He plays the piano and the acoustic guitars, and is accompanied by Amy Langley on cello. One of the songs " Back to You " written with Fred Ball of the Norwegian band Pleasure is a duet with French actress Emmanuelle Seigner . After this album's release, Anderson released his solo album through his own independent label, BA Songs. Anderson's third album, Slow Attack

1590-400: The band the Tears with Will Foster, Makoto Sakamoto and Nathan Fisher and released their debut album Here Come the Tears , which was met with generally favourable reviews. It was produced by Butler, recorded at 2 kHz Studios and Rak Studios (London) as well as at Butler's home studio ("Bernie's Buttons"), and featured the singles " Refugees " and " Lovers ". Following the cancellation of

1643-485: The band were forced to change their name to The London Suede for the American market. Though songwriting partner Butler left in 1994 during the recording of second album Dog Man Star , the band continued to release critically and increasingly commercially successful material in the UK, Europe and Asia, such as 1996's Coming Up (another number one for the band). The band went on to release Head Music (number one on

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1696-480: The burgeoning Britpop scene of the early 1990s. After missing too many rehearsals and flaunting her relationship with Albarn while still living with Anderson, Frischmann left the band, going on to front Elastica . Even before Suede's first album appeared in stores, Anderson's androgynous style and vague "confessions" about his sexuality stirred controversy in the British music press. His infamous comment that he

1749-422: The idea of that metal"). Figaro advises the Count to disguise himself as a drunken soldier, ordered to be billeted with Bartolo, so as to gain entrance to the house. For this suggestion, Figaro is richly rewarded. A room in Bartolo's house with four doors The scene begins with Rosina's cavatina , "Una voce poco fa" ("A voice a little while ago"). (This aria was originally written in the key of E major , but it

1802-631: The late 1980s, while a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture , University College London , Anderson and Osman formed Suede with Anderson's girlfriend, Justine Frischmann , and soon recruited guitarist Bernard Butler through an advertisement in NME . After they had received temporary help from former Smiths drummer Mike Joyce , in 1991 Simon Gilbert joined as their permanent drummer. Around this time Frischmann left Anderson for Blur frontman Damon Albarn , which created an early rift in

1855-452: The legally required witnesses. Bartolo barges in, accompanied by the Officer and the men of the watch, but too late; the marriage is already complete. The befuddled Bartolo is pacified by being allowed to retain Rosina's dowry. The opera concludes with an anthem to love ("Amor e fede eterna, si vegga in noi regnar!"; "May love and faith eternally be seen to reign in us"). Brett Anderson Brett Lewis Anderson (born 29 September 1967)

1908-408: The lovers conspiring, and angrily drives everybody away. Berta vents about the crazy household ("Il vecchiotto cerca moglie"). A room in Bartolo's house with a grille looking out onto the square . Bartolo orders Basilio to have the notary ready to marry him to Rosina that evening. Basilio leaves and Rosina arrives. Bartolo shows Rosina the letter she wrote to "Lindoro" and persuades her that this

1961-584: The lyric "You're going to reap just what you sow" for the Children in Need charity single " Perfect Day ". Following persistent rumours, the boss of the band's former label, Nude Records' Saul Galpern, confirmed to the NME that Suede would be playing together again. "It's [for] a one-off gig," he explained of the show, which featured the band's second incarnation. The band played London's Royal Albert Hall as part of

2014-406: The one...you're not fooling me?"). Although surprised by Bartolo, Rosina manages to fool him, but he remains suspicious. (Aria: "A un dottor della mia sorte"; "To a doctor of my class"). Count Almaviva, disguised as a soldier and pretending to be drunk, enters the house and demands to be quartered there. In fear of the drunken man, Berta the housekeeper rushes to Bartolo for protection. Bartolo tells

2067-441: The practice of inserting Alexander Alyabyev 's "Nightingale". In a recording of a La Scala performance in 1956, Maria Callas sang a shortened version of "Contro un cor", transposed up a tone, in E. Once after Patti had sung a particularly florid rendition of the opera's legitimate aria, "Una voce poco fa", Rossini is reported to have asked her: "Very nice, my dear, and who wrote the piece you have just performed?" The piece

2120-2156: The show was a true fiasco. The bulls, perhaps young ones, according to Chino Allende, remained paralyzed on the floor. And those that moved did so only to raise and throw the abundant sand and dirt at the spectators. "The bulls ate the lenses, the electric lights. They missed the sun, the sky, I have never seen bulls so afraid," said Sergio Venturino in explaining the failure. Other artists that have performed at Teatro Caupolicán include: Air Supply , 2 Minutos , Alice Cooper , All Time Low , An Cafe , Anathema , Avenged Sevenfold , Bad Religion , Beastie Boys , Belinda , Black Rebel Motorcycle Club , Brett Anderson , Bruce Dickinson , Cannibal Corpse , Carcass , Chancho en Piedra , Cyndi Lauper , Creed , Creedence Clearwater Revisited , Day6 , Death , Deep Purple , Dir En Grey , Epica , Eterna Inocencia , Europe , Faith No More , Fear Factory , Fiskales Ad-Hok , Garbage , (G)I-dle , Green Day , Gustavo Cerati , Hatebreed , Iron Maiden , Jamiroquai , JYJ , Klaxons , Korn , La Polla Records , Lacuna Coil , Los Fabulosos Cadillacs , Los Miserables , Mägo de Oz , Marillion , McFLY , Megadeth , Misfits , Motörhead , Muse , Nightwish , Noel Gallagher , NOFX , Opeth , Ozzy Osbourne , Panda , Pantera , Paradise Lost , The Ramones , Roxette , Scorpions , Sepultura , Sex Pistols , Simple Plan , Shaila , Slash , Soda Stereo , Sonata Arctica , Steven Wilson , Stryper , Suicidal Tendencies , Symphony X , Tarja Turunen , The Exploited , The Gathering , The Gazette , The Hives , The Kooks , The Rapture , TVXQ , Vamps , Vicentico , WarCry , Within Temptation , X Japan , Yngwie Malmsteen , Emma Shapplin , Ha*Ash , among others. 33°27′22.38″S 70°38′57.16″W  /  33.4562167°S 70.6492111°W  / -33.4562167; -70.6492111 The Barber of Seville The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution ( Italian : Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione [il barˈbjɛːre di siˈviʎʎa osˈsiːa liˈnuːtile prekautˈtsjoːne] )

2173-817: The theatre as a place to declare himself a member of the Communist Party. Enrique Venturino Soto ran the theatre at the beginning of the 1940s. Venturino also formed the Chilean circus troupe, Las Águilas Humanas (in English, "the human eagles") during an earlier era in which the space was dubbed Teatro Circo (or Circus Theatre) for its circus schedule. The list of artists who have performed on its stage includes Roxette , Louis Armstrong , Caterina Valente , Duke Ellington , Bill Haley & His Comets , Jorge Negrete , Lucho Gatica , El Indio Araucano, (singer) winner of El Disco De Oro in 1938 , Raphael , Lola Flores , Maurice Chevalier , Juliette Gréco , Chito Faró,

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2226-646: The theatre. The Soviet ballet Beriosk came, as well as the Moscow Circus, and the Chinese Circus. Later, the ice skating show Holiday on Ice performed on a number of occasions. In 1946 women's Chilean basketball won its first South American title there. The theatre hosted boxing events, including fights with Arturo Godoy , Antonio Fernández, Godfrey Stevens, Samuel Serrano defending his WBA world Junior Lightweight title against Benedicto Villablanca , and Martín Vargas . Teatro Caupolicán has been

2279-520: The thematic material in Il barbiere di Siviglia itself. Luigi Zamboni , for whom Rossini wrote the role of Figaro, had urged Rossini and Francesco Sforza-Cesarini, the cash-strapped impresario of the Teatro Argentina, to engage his sister-in-law, Elisabetta Gafforini , as Rosina. However, her fee was too high and in the end they settled on Geltrude Righetti . The premiere of Rossini's opera at

2332-405: The two reconcile. While Almaviva and Rosina are enraptured by one another, Figaro keeps urging them to leave. Two people are heard approaching the front door. They are Basilio and the notary. The Count, Rosina, and Figaro attempt to leave by way of the ladder, but discover it has been removed. Using bribes and threats, Almaviva coerces the notary into marrying him to Rosina, with Basilio and Figaro as

2385-525: The upward transposition of the role of Rosina, turning her from a lustrous alto into a pert soprano." However, it has also been noted that Rossini, who frequently altered his music for specific singers, wrote a new aria for the second act for Joséphine Fodor-Mainvielle , a soprano who had sung Rosina in the 1818 London premiere, and sang the new aria c. 1820 at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris, where it

2438-721: The use of basso buffo , which is common in comic opera . The second performance, however, was successful. The original French play, Le Barbier de Séville , had a similar story: poorly received at first, only to become a favorite within a week. The opera was first performed in England on 10 March 1818 at the King's Theatre in London in Italian, soon followed on 13 October at the Covent Garden Theatre by an English version translated by John Fawcett and Daniel Terry . It

2491-429: The work of Paisiello triumphed for a time, only Rossini's version has stood the test of time and continues to be a mainstay of operatic repertoire. On 11 November 1868, two days before Rossini's death, the composer Constantino Dall'Argine  [ es ] (1842–1877) premiered an opera based on the same libretto as Rossini's work, bearing a dedication to Rossini. The premiere was not a failure, but critics condemned

2544-467: Was "a bisexual man who never had a homosexual experience" was indicative of how he both courted controversy and a sexually ambiguous, alienated audience. In 1993, Suede hit number one on the UK charts. Combining Morrissey 's homoerotic posturing with David Bowie 's glam theatrics, Anderson achieved rapid fame in the UK, though not in the US. Due to a trademark dispute with the American lounge singer Suede ,

2597-418: Was addicted for two and a half years, but stopped in late 1999, when somebody very close to him became ill. He has been clean since. Speaking of his addiction, Anderson said, "Anyone who has ever tried crack will know exactly why I took it. It's the scariest drug in the world because the hit you get from it is so, so seductive. I wanted to experience that, and I did – repeatedly." Anderson is married to Jodie,

2650-539: Was an artist and a dressmaker; his father was a taxi driver whom Anderson described as an "obsessive classical-music fan". He attended Lindfield Junior School, Oathall Comprehensive School and Haywards Heath Sixth-Form College . In 1986 he gained A-levels in Maths, Physics and Chemistry. In his teens Anderson played guitar for garage bands such as the Pigs and Geoff, the latter featuring future Suede bassist Mat Osman . In

2703-424: Was co-written with Leo Abrahams . On his website, Brett Anderson writes that he tried to use words in a different way, as fragments, and hint of meanings and emotions. The music is more orchestral than Wilderness with more instrumentation throughout the album. On tour, he was joined by Jim Dare [Minuteman], Didz Hammond ( Dirty Pretty Things ), Angie Pollock ( Goldfrapp ), Sebastian Sternberg ( Pleasure , Marina and

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2756-825: Was first performed in America on 3 May 1819 in English (probably the Covent Garden version) at the Park Theatre in New York . It was given in French at the Théâtre d'Orléans in New Orleans on 4 March 1823, and became the first opera ever to be performed in Italian in New York, when Manuel Garcia (who played Almaviva) and his Italian troupe opened their first season there with Il barbiere on 29 November 1825 at

2809-525: Was published. The singing lesson in act 2 has often been turned into "a show-stopping cabaret". Adelina Patti was known to include Luigi Arditi 's "Il bacio", the Bolero from Verdi's I vespri siciliani , the Shadow Song from Meyerbeer's Dinorah , and Henry Bishop 's " Home! Sweet Home! ". Nellie Melba followed suit, accompanying herself on the piano in the final song. Pauline Viardot began

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