Mill City Summer Opera dramas for the summer arts audience in the Twin Cities every year since, with productions of Gioacchino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" in 2013; Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" in 2014; Gaetano Donizetti's "La fille du régiment" in 2015; Stephen Sondheim's "" in 2016; and Ástor Piazzolla's "María de Buenos Aires" in 2017. In addition, the organization has offered alternative educational and contemporary programming, including opera scenes featuring emerging artists in the opera field and fusion programming. Mill City Summer Opera Mill City Summer Opera is a non-profit performing arts organization that produces live opera in Minneapolis. It produces one opera per
The Barber of Seville (play) Guilty Mother". Though the play was poorly received at first, Beaumarchais worked some fast editing of the script, turning it into a roaring success after three days. The play's title might be a pun on Tirso de Molina's earlier play "El Burlador de Sevilla" ("The Trickster of Seville"). Mozart wrote a set of 12 variations, K.354, on one of Baudron's songs, "". The story follows a traditional Commedia dell'arte structure, with many characters seemingly based on famous stock characters. The plot involves a Spanish count, called simply The Count although "Almaviva" appears as an additional name (whether it is a