Jose Adan Perez

Boheme Opera NJ is delighted to present a semi-staged performance of Gioacchino Rossini’s comic opera, The Barber of Seville at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in Ewing on Sunday, January 29 at 3 p.m. The performance will take place at the Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall on the campus of TCNJ. Members of the Boheme Opera Orchestra will be on stage with the cast and Boheme Opera Men’s Chorus Ensemble. Artistic Director Joseph Pucciatti will conduct, assisted by Howard Zogott as stage director. There will be a Mayo Concert Hall lobby reception for audience members directly after the production. Reserved tickets for the performance are $50 and $30, now available online at bit.ly/BONJ_Barber_TCNJ and also via TCNJ’s audience services specialist at (609) 771-2585. 

This production of The Barber of Seville features an international cast. The title role of Figaro, the barber will be sung by baritone Jose Adan Perez of Mexico, who has sung a number of leading roles at the Opera de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, LA Opera, New York City Opera, Aspen Music Festival, and in several European houses.

Rosina will be sung by Korean soprano Sungji Kim, who has sung over 20 roles in the operas at the venues of the Castleton Music Festival under Lorin Maazel, San Francisco Opera Center, Annapolis Opera Concert Opera Philadelphia, Boheme Opera NJ, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Berliner Philharmonie Grasser Saal.

Iceland native tenor Thor Arbjornsson will sing the role of Count Almaviva. He recently sang the 21st Annual Bel Canto Opera Concert with Maestro Eve Queler and went on to sing one of the lead roles in the premier of Sheila Silver’s operatic adaptation of the New York Times bestseller, A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Greek baritone Stefanos Koroneos will portray Dr. Bartolo. He has performed throughout Italy in leading roles, and has performed internationally as Barone in La Traviata with the Bolshoi Theater directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and at the Athens Concert Hall under the baton of Richard Bonynge.

Korean bass Paul An will be heard as Don Basilio, having sung over 60 roles on the operatic and concert stage across the globe.

Support for Boheme Opera NJ programming is made possible by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Boheme Opera Guild members, Dorothea van Dyke McLane Association, Princeton Friends of Opera, NJM Insurance Group, Pisauro Levy and Palumbo CPAS Pa., Mercer County Italian American Festival Association, Italian-American National Hall of Fame, and dedicated private individuals.

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