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Programme Note

Synopsis:
Count Almaviva, concealing his identity by dressing as a poor student, is in love with Rosina and desperately wants her to become his wife. However Rosina’s guardian, Dr Bartolo, has other plans: Rosina is due a large inheritance and so he plans to marry her himself. Aided by Figaro, the Count’s former manservant and now a barber in Seville, the lovers outwit all of Bartolo’s cunning schemes and the opera ends happily as Almaviva and Rosina are married.