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) The Barber of Seville (play) The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution () is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The play as it is now known was written in 1773, but, due to legal and political problems of the author, it was not performed until February 23, 1775, at the Comédie-Française in the Tuileries. It is the first play in a trilogy of which the other constituents are "The Marriage of Figaro" and "The